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The Screen Savers, Free Book Extras

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The Screen Savers, Book Extras include:
Deleted Passages
An update from Sockball
The story behind the book cover
And more

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How To Embrace Rejection

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Man to shop keeper:
   “Have you got an apron?”
   The shop keeper hands over an apron.
   The man looks at it, confused.
   “No, Ron, I asked if you have an ape; I'm a zookeeper, people aren't going to pay for that!”
   Ron reaches his hand down behind the counter and walks around it with a monkey.
   “No. I need an ape, Ron.”

See, if I had a time-machine, I could go back and sell that gag to the Two Ronnies. Darn. They could reject me too. Back in them days they'd probably reject me themselves – they wouldn't even need to get an agent to do it. This would be my thing: I could leap back through time, getting rejected by all the greats. Maybe I'd let a few women reject me too – I mean, why not? Then I could come back and brag about it – "Marilyn Monroe, she rejected me", "Fay Wray", “The Mona Lisa” ... I mean, that's quite some collection of blow-outs...  Knowing me, I'd get to the end of my collection -- I'd be going for a full set of "Women" and "Comedy" rejections — and some bugger would say, "Yes". That would suck (please – no innuendos – it's not that kind of monologue). It would suck – it’d be just my luck to have a female historic icon say yes to a date just as I was about to complete my sticker book … I’d have to f*ck it up.
   “Are you sure?” I could say, prodding her with my sticker book: “I’ve been rejected by all these women – they know what they’re talking about. Plus look how rubbish I am at comedy,” I would plead, showing her the comedy-rejection-book. “No?”

I guess, though, the pinnacle for this kind of thing rejection experience, is today – in our less sexist Earth – where the comedians/comedy troops are women. It's more efficient that way. I could get rejected by comedienne/comedy duos both script-wise and then relationship-wise at the same time. Awesome.

   "Hey Sarah Silverman stroke Amy Schumer (stop it), you want to be in my sketch?"
   "No.", "Nope"
   "Dinner?"
   "No", "Ewwwwe"
   "Alright!"
   Quadruple tick and full-house, and I wouldn't even need a time machine.

Yeah! 2018, you rock.

Bryan

If you liked "How To Embrace Rejection", try:

Sketch: Chess Clock Timer.
Sexual inequality is occurring and there's only one way to fix it.

Novel: The Screen Savers.
Featuring comedy, mystery and offbeat romance

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Mother's Day Goth

Mother's Day Goth

Why are all these Mother's Day cards so sickly-sweet?
   What do you do if your mum is a Goth?
   I guess you could rip the card up a little, and shit on it.
   Yeah, nice.

CUTS TO:
   Gives "Goth" card to mum.
   "?!," she says.
   "I thought you were a goth?"
   "No."
   "Well, you wear a lot of black."
   "It's Chanel -- a little black dress -- like Audrey Hepburn."
   "Oh ... so you would prefer a card with pink flowers on then?"
   "Yes."
   "Hmmm ... I'd better not give you your present then."

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Read My Impact 50 Scripts Here!

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The premise of Impact 50 is that a meteor strike is pending, the result is certain death and there is no solution or salvation. The film covers the period from announcement of the impeding disaster, to the final destruction of the planet. What a great concept.

You had to write a 2 minute scene that fits in with this premise, plus a 15 second ending which gets shown at the end of the film. Fifty scripts are chosen and woven into the final film. I didn't make the final script with these scripts, but I love them all, and so here they are, for you, if you want to read them -- 2 related dramas set in that scenario, plus a romantic comedy!

You can read or download my 2 minute screenplay submissions here:

Dead And Buried (Romantic comedy set at the end of the world)
Better Together (Drama)
Dash (Drama -- follows on from Better Together)

Part of the process of submission required you to read and give feedback on other scripts. There were some great submissions to the competition and I hope the final film is successful!

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Tree of the Week

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Tree Of The Week was created by a character from my novel, The Screen Savers. You can find out more about who created Tree Of The Week, and why, in the Book Extras to The Screen Savers, which can be downloaded, for free, as a pdf, here, or an ebook, here (via BookFunnel).

See all my Trees Of The Week, so far, here on my blog.

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If you like Tree Of The Week you might like:

Sketch: Basic Dave Buys a phone.Basic Dave just wants a simple phone, but finding one is not easy. Will he have to compromise? 

Sketch: Basic Dave Buys a phone.
Basic Dave just wants a simple phone, but finding one is not easy. Will he have to compromise? 

Novel: The Screen Savers.
Featuring comedy, mystery and offbeat romance

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Sketch: Basic Dave Buys A Phone

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Basic Dave just wants a simple phone, but finding one is not easy. Will he have to compromise? *****Virgin Media Shorts "Pick of The Week"*****

Writer/Director Bryan Romaine
Starring Antonio Rochira & Jodyanne Fletcher.
Sound: Nicholas Payne

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