William Gallagher
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Deputy Chair of the Writers' Guild of Great Britain. Even so, all views expressed are mine and most of them continue to be quite daft anyway.
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As of right now, I am Deputy Chair of the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain. It’s just been announced at the
@TheWritersGuild
AGM and I couldn't be more proud. Or daunted, actually. Plus I stand alongside
@emmajanereeves
as co-Deputies and that is a honour.
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@RealTimVine
Because I spotted this and until now have not found anyone else remotely interested, you must let me show you. Columbo on the left, Six Mill on the right.
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I'm privileged to say that I've been re-elected as co-Deputy Chair of the Writers' Guild of Great Britain.
@TheWritersGuild
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Michael Gove and Sarah Vine are to split, citing irreconcilable similarities.
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Proud to stand with
@TheWritersGuild
and the worldwide support for striking
@WGAWest
@WGAEast
#ScreenwritersEverywhere
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@HarperCollinsUK
@WmCollinsBooks
I believe the audiobook version features someone sobbing. Not sure who it is, could be anyone at all in the entire country.
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@WorksWithWords
Um. Not sure how I feel about this, as I may be a slightly dull bloke with a YouTube video series. (58keys, for writers using Apple gear. )
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I am a Remainer. Apparently I broke Brexit. I don't understand how, but I fully apologise and am willing for us to rejoin the EU to put it right.
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@NationalTheatre
You know it's statistically unlikely that you could happen to programme an all-male lineup of plays. But you've also programmed an all-white-male one. Three appear to be under 50, but one's 56, one's 86 and another would be 90 if he hadn't died in 2015.
@TheWritersGuild
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My head's been full of how
@WorksWithWords
is now Chair of
@TheWritersGuild
and so full that I forgot about me. I've been re-elected as Deputy Chair. Lisa's in Leeds, I'm in Birmingham and so is my new co-Deputy Chair,
@tim_stimpson
. Truly a national guild.
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I do really like Apple, but then I'm not a developer who's just seen them release a free competitor to my products. Apple's been 'Sherlocking' again and I talked to the people most affected:
@appleinsider
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Trump being beaten is such an overwhelming relief that for me, for the moment, it pushed out even the excitement that Kamala Harris is the new Vice President. God, but today feels like it has the first great news in so very long.
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My YouTube channel now has 1,701 subscribers. I’ll feel silly if I explained why that number is significant to me, so I’ll leave you to feel clever working it out.
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@jonrog1
Re: Apple Notes. Yes, I think so. I was an Evernote evangelist but it drove me away with so many problems. FWIW, I've made a possibly preposterously detailed video guide to Apple Notes:
#58keys
#applenotes
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Thrill of the year: getting to meet writers from Ukraine that I'd lectured online. Wait, that sounds like I told them off. Oh, you know what I mean.
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Okay, I am struggling to process this: the US House of Representatives has apparently cited an article of mine in their antitrust report into technology firms.
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I can’t imagine how you missed this in The Guardian yesterday. Was something else going on? The paper covered the anniversary of BBC Ceefax and I got to enthuse about it all:
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Five jobs I’ve had:
1. Assembly-language programmer
2. BBC News broadcast journalist
3. Door to door encyclopaedia salesman
4. Scriptwriter
5. TV historian
I realise I could do another five and another. Clearly I can’t stick to much.
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I have had so much caffeine today that I'm at least a thousand feet above tea level.
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I wish I’d counted from the start of the year but apparently since 21 February 2023, I’ve written 815,000 words. Next year I’ll either aim for a million, or just to make any of them good words.
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Just had my second vaccine jab. So pleased, so relieved. Plus I can switch back on my iPhone’s “ignore unknown callers” and block the ceaseless spam calls I’ve been getting.
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Maybe the greatest single writing tool there is – its iPad version is the best. Everyone should be using Scrivener for iPad. New 58keys episode:
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Just had my first unkind YouTube comment and as an aside the fella criticised my “Shakespearean Bird Brain”. I have not one clue what he means but I love it. Made my day.
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Tom Baker did say this, but let's be clear that Chris Boucher wrote the words: "You know, the very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. They don't alters their views to fit the facts, they alter the facts to fit the views."
#DoctorWho
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So excited about this: I would be anyway because it’s so interesting, but I also got to work a little on it and I’ve been longing to see it all together.
OPENING TODAY!
#WhatIsHome
@NTCroome
To mark the launch of this poignant exhibition the
@EYMRefugeeChoir
are performing at Croome at 1pm, 1.40pm, 3pm & 3.40pm. Take a first look at the exhibition at 2pm. Find out more about What Is Home here:
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@RealTimVine
Remember the Six Million Dollar Man title sequence where you seen an operating theatre? The overhead shot was taken from Columbo: A Stitch in Crime.
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Hazel is the Mac app you don't realise you need, and then when you've got it, you forget it's there. But here’s how it is always working for you, always sorting out your documents and always saving you time. 58keys:
@Noodle_Hazel
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Why are American politicians always so old? I keep reading headlines that say Biden is nearing 270.
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Thank god, thank god I was let down over a 58keys interview because in looking for a replacement, I just got
@emmajanereeves
and she was superb. You can watch her talking about writing next week, I just had to enthuse at you right now.
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I agree with
@EmWatson
's point: gender equality is not a women's issue, it's a human rights issue.
http://t.co/j2WL6KfoEY
#heforshe
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@JulieSistersky
@EyeCandyVFX
@DMinghella
@ChristoPhraser
I can offer this article I wrote for when the NHS announced it was rejecting the Apple/Google system. The short version is that Apple/Google's does everything on-device instead of giving your data to the government:
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It's the single most powerful Mac utility you can buy –– and it will speed up just about everything you do, unfortunately giving you more time to write. New 58keys episode on YouTube:
@keyboardmaestro
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All I appear to have achieved today is a brick-sized headache. I’m going to say that chocolate is the cure and you’re going to back me up, right?
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@unamccormack
Why am I always surprised by this kind of nonsense? I just related to Bethan, the 16-year-old Welsh schoolgirl in
@KayDLlew
's fantastic In My Skin and I'm a 55-year-old man in Birmingham. I want writing to take me where I haven't been and cannot be.
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I tell you,
@BhamLitFest
is a very special place. Walking in to an event on my own tonight, I felt like I’d come home to friends.
#BLF2017
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And we've done it: my 58keys YouTube series for writers who use Macs, iPhones and iPads has now reached 800 subscribers. Thank you all, this is a lovely way to end January.
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@hatteatime
BBC Radio 4's commissioning advice stresses how key a 200-word synopsis is and then goes ta-daaa, look, even Hamlet can be summarised. Yeah, but nobody would go see it after that description.
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If you see two therapists, do they counsel each other out?
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Long week. But I have now shut down my Mac, closed every device and turned off every screen so that I can a) have a weekend at last and 2) realise just this minute that there’s a new episode of
#slowhorses
to watch. Right, screens back on.
@see_saw_films
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Congratulations to
@TheWritersGuild
for a simply tremendous awards evening. You make a great show and I am so very proud to just be there, let alone to play a pixel’s part in the process.
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@stephenrobles
@appleinsider
@moviesontheside
There's a button on Apple's Podcast app for when a podcast is better heard faster than 1x. It's labelled "Unfollow Show".
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I've found a hotel that caters for writers: it offers a turn-down service.
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I fell asleep at the keyboard just now. Woke to find I’d carried on typing and had written the words: “The gift is”. That’s it. No idea what that meant. No connection to anything I’m working on. Send help.
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This infuriates me: every now and again UK TV says it's adopting the US writers' room system, but it's like they only listen to half what that is. US writers are on staff of a show, they're part of it. Here, writers just get ordered in like stationery.
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Cannot, cannot remember the last time a comedy had me beaming from the opening credits to the end, actually beaming. “Schmigadoon!” has brightened up my week and I appear to now want corn pudding. Don’t even know what that is.
#Schmigadoon
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My Apple Watch just gave me the three-rings fireworks display because - it says - I’ve exceeded its activity, move and stand goals for the day. But in fact I’ve sat on my backside at the same Mac from 8am to 7pm. I think watchOS 7 must have a sarcastic feature.
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If you find New Year's Eve hard, do note down everything you actually did this year instead of forgetting or dismissing it. Every year, I have to fight sinking at midnight, but inspired by
@HeddwenBethan
, I did a list and found I had a fair few thrilling moments in 2019.
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Just had to break off to answer the front door. It was a Conservative who is standing for the local elections specifically, she said, to combat all of the corruption in my region. I was very nice about it, but only after I'd laughed aloud.
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I wrote some dialogue for Hartley Hare to say at the
#wggbawards
– I think my life is complete.
@TheWritersGuild
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Type faster on iPhones: new tip from the 58keys YouTube channel
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Okay, now I wish I’d written Barbie. Joyous and sad and so clever.
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Ten years ago I went to the wrong Odeon cinema to see the Doctor Who 50th anniversary special. Realised with no time to spare, but ran across Birmingham to the right branch and had such a good, if breathless, time.
#DoctorWho60
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Passed a Royal Mail lorry with a sign saying “One billion parcels delivered”. But it didn’t say out of how many.
#royalmail
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In the last year, the Earth has moved 584 million miles in its orbit. I haven’t left my desk.
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There’s a word for people like Boris Johnson. It’s “goodbye”.
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I aspired to be a member of
@TheWritersGuild
when I was starting out and now I'm involved, I am continually left ashen by the things it has to fight for on our behalf. We would be nowhere without our union.
#HeartUnions
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Imagine if schools have to close for months, if schoolchildren's education is irrevocably wrecked and lockdown means never mixing with anyone. A whole generation would grow up fit for nothing but a position in the Cabinet.
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This is new. A fella wanted to write for my brilliant publication that he loves, and he got the name wrong. I told him so –– and he’s just emailed back saying he wants to write for my brilliant publication, but he’s still got the name of it wrong. Yeah, no, I trust his research.
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Stephen Grief was working in my town once when I was writing a Blake’s 7 project. I interviewed him, he was great, the project fizzled out — and then each year he came back to Birmingham he would suggest a coffee. I can only have met him four or five times, but I will miss him.
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When something is right, I mean just somehow right, it makes me cry. For six Christmas Eves now I've watched Arrival as a writers' midnight mass and tonight it's made me actually sob. God, to be able to write like that.
@HIGHzurrer
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I am life-support-dependent on OmniFocus. Why do the major updates always come when I’m on holiday, though? Last time I parked outside a McDonald’s to get good enough WiFi to download. This time I’m on a river cruise so it’ll be the weekend before I can buy this.
Introducing OmniFocus 4! Available now for Mac, iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch.
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I have spent all day on video conferences. I'm living in the FaceTime Continuum.
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Just had an ad promising to help me last two hours in bed. And I'm now officially old because I thought it was something to do with not having to wake up to go to the loo.
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For some reason, I’m thinking tonight of shits deserting the sinking rat.
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Proud to see
@TheWritersGuild
's
@GailRenard
, Sandi Toksvig, and all, out protesting in support of the WGA strike -- and in support of all writers.
#ScreenwritersEverywhere
@WGAWest
@WGAEast
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I'd obviously rather no one had to write an obituary for
#TerrenceDicks
, but I'm honoured that I got to do it for
@TheWritersGuild
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I’ve been playing a game where you have to name TV shows that have a number in their title. I believe I won with “Magnum, pi”.
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Just rewatched the “Midnight” episode of Doctor Who. God, it’s stunning. I’ve been enjoying watching classic Doctor Who yet it all seems a bit safe and tame in comparison. I‘m left miserable because there’s no chance I can write as well as Russell T Davies. But I can try.
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I am sixty percent sure I’m on the right train. And more than forty percent hopeful that I’m not, that this is the evening I go on adventures at strange stations.
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Help me become the true sell-out I've often been accused of.
Short
#Writing
Courses & Workshops: we're running online and in-person this spring, with
@WGallagher
kicking off your writing with "Starting to Write" where there's ONE SPACE LEFT. £15 per hour, bursaries available:
#amwriting
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And here is my book in the Library of Birmingham. What do you mean, I've rearranged the shelf?
@BhamLitFest
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Channel 4 has just put a caption under Boris Johnson’s speech saying the Bake Off is at 20:15. So there is something factually accurate in it after all.
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This is excellent news. I can't count the number of students I've talked to who need the Writers' Guild backing them up, and now there's a special rate for them while they're studying.
Calling all student writers. We've launched a special discounted membership package just for you, at just £30 per year. Find out more + join up!
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Strange: usually I crash into a depression at midnight on New Year's Eve but this time I'm happy and excited about 2017. I hope you are too.
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There. Spent the afternoon at the Birmingham Literature Festival and was simply very happy.
@BhamLitFest
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I cannot, cannot praise or thank
@StringFilms
enough: they just did me a bespoke filmmaking workshop where they untangled all my confused questions and have left me excited to go out filming. I was Sunday-morning-tired beforehand, now I feel fantastic.
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This was a happy moment: I was reading a short story at the
@BhamLitFest
last night and
@HeddwenBethan
took this shot.
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Dear
@stephenrobles
sending me a Ted Lasso shirt is the second kindest thing anyone has done for me and I forgive you. Please picture a very confused face as I went to pick up a review projector and was handed this instead. I had to buy biscuits to get over the surprise.
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On a train to London for the first time in two years and three days.
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Congratulations
@writingwestmids
for the National Writers' Conference. Absolutely beaming.
#NationalWriters16
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Deeply, deeply proud to have shared a stage with young writers plus David Lodge and
@Jo_Bell
at
#nwc18
. Choked me up, actually. Thanks for having me
@writingwestmids
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I am so looking forward to this on the 27th. It includes a Time story of mine – that I've written and am also performing. Actual acting. Not terrifying at all.
#SaveTheDate
27th Feb 2020
#DarkHorse
! Our
#NewShow
@DarkHorseMosele
#Birmingham
full of
#NewWriting
! ‘An entertaining evening exploring the darker secrets behind our public faces...’
#Theatre
#Drama
#WestMidlands
#NewDrama
#NewTheatre
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@brendan_fischer
@stimeder
Quick, how can we learn from the Irish Government and stop him coming to the UK?
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Exciting DHL update: they now really, really do have my parcel again and they’re going to deliver it - yesterday. Companies pay for this service?
@dhlexpressuk
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Wait, what, you mean everyone can see this chat? I thought it was just
@jed_mercurio
filling me in about the TV industry. I should've combed my hair. Truly: do watch, I had a great time nattering and so will you.
#Screenwriting
giant
@jed_mercurio
is in conversation with our very own Deputy Co-Chair
@WGallagher
this Thurs (Oct 15)
@rts_mids
careers fair. More details + bookings:
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It’s only commissioners and studios who somehow don’t want women TV and film writers: audiences do and today
@TheWritersGuild
has proof.
#WorkWithUs
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I forgot there's any doubt: prompted by @
@mca_debbie
saying she's had her first vaccination, let me put my hand up and say I've now had mine too. Not one pixel of a double about it for me, straight in there, will queue up for part 2.
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Amazing that I can actually be disappointed that Jeremy Hunt didn't become PM. We've gone so low.
#NextPrimeMinister
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This is one of the most significant training sessions I've been on: helped me gigantically.
Tomorrow: do you clam up as soon as someone asks you what you're writing? Join
@liv_chapman
for a 2-hour online training - Pitch Your Work - on Thurs 30 July, 10am-12noon. A highly practical training session, you'll learn skills you can apply immediately.
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If there’s an annual contest for best line, 2022 has just been won by: “Eton is Hogwarts for wankers.”
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