My final challenge of the year

See, I often have ideas about projects I'd like to work on, but often I then go to bed, wake up, and decide they were rubbish. But I've had an idea tonight that I'm so keen on I've decided to write a blog post about it - because the chances are if I go 'public' with an idea I'll actually force myself to go ahead with it...

The other day I purchased an mp3 recorder off a mate, it was cheap and quite shiny. It's speciality is recording voices, and driving back from a Christmas show rehearsal a few nights back I joked to Izzy that I had a spare afternoon on Saturday 10th, shall we record a sitcom? As she's as nuts as I am, she said yes, and then I asked Grace if she too wanted to be involved, she also seemed keen, so we were going to spend some hours this weekend trying out my mp3 recorder on a new radio sitcom ('Technically Single') I've been working on the last few weeks. Tonight though I've had a better idea; sod the sitcom, let's do something festive... THE TWELVE MONOLOGUES OF CHRISTMAS.

12 festive monologues, released as a free download, one a day, in the run up to Christmas. Some short, some longer, some witty, some completely and utterly heartbreaking, but all very Christmassy. Having had this idea whilst eating my dinner, I looked at my diary and realised that if we get the first one out there on Monday, one monologue a day for twelve days means the final one will be released on CHRISTMAS EVE. PERFECT! I like writing monologues, I like analysing people, and Christmas is a perfect time for that - from the childish enthusiasm of a youngster to the anxiety-ridden fears of an old skinflint, there's plenty of stories to be told.

Anyway, have just had a nice chat on the phone with Grace and she's coming over on Monday evening to record six of them. I'm hoping that Izzy is still free on Saturday to record a good few then - hopefully the other six, and we can get moving with this, she may be reading this blog, not sure, but have emailed her as I think that's a more acceptable way of communication.

Right, I need a website for it now, a logo for the project, and...er, the scripts themselves. I'd best get writing then.