Welcome… I’m New Here! Hello from Guernsey!

[OscarBarby]

I am from Guernsey, a small island in the English Channel were nothing much happens except a financial services industry. It is peaceful and quiet. Perfect for locking myself away and writing.

I have autism, ADHD and manic depression - which is quite a cocktail.

I mostly write screenplays, I have a few going into production this year and next... it has been a long time coming.

I have also started a children's book series - Oscar the Rabbit and Friends. At the moment they are self-published on Amazon, but I am looking for a publisher to take them on.

In my spare time I swim in the sea, eat cheese sandwiches, read hard science-fiction and daydream of the time when I can go skiing for three months of the year.

Nice to meet you all!

 

[mickleinapickle]

Welcome! Can't beat a good cheese sandwich. Hope you don't eat them, and swim in the sea at the same time though.

 

[Sedayne]

Nice to meet you @OscarBarby

 

[OscarBarby]

Welcome! Can't beat a good cheese sandwich. Hope you don't eat them, and swim in the sea at the same time though.

No! Of course not.... I only eat cheese sandwiches while I ski... Silly pickle!

 

[Vagabond Heart]

Hi and welcome.

Guernsey is lovely. Add cheese samiches and it's the bomb.
Nice to have you with us. xx

 

[OscarBarby]

Hi and welcome.

Guernsey is lovely. Add cheese samiches and it's the bomb.
Nice to have you with us. xx

Thanks Vagabond.

Try living here... after a week the bomb explodes.

Lovely to be here.

 

[TimRees]

Hi OscarBarby,

Good to see you write screenplays. Not enough screenplay writers here. Are the scripts going into production for TV or film?

 

[Peyton Stafford]

Welcome! Love your sense of humor and look forward to reading your writing.

 

[OscarBarby]

Hi OscarBarby,

Good to see you write screenplays. Not enough screenplay writers here. Are the scripts going into production for TV or film?

Hi Tim, the majority are for film - the first one goes into production in October. It is a crime thriller called Graft. There are a fair few more in various genres and at various stages of development and production.

There is a TV series that is currently doing the streamer/network rounds - so fingers crossed. That's adaptation of a South African book called "We Don't Talk About It. Ever."

 

[RK Wallis]

Welcome aboard, @OscarBarby for a couple of years I was part of an online writing group with a screenwriter who was one of the 5 winners of the Academy Nicholl Fellowship in America. Time differences became too hard for me to keep writing with them, which is a shame. They were lovely.

 

[OscarBarby]

Welcome aboard, @OscarBarby for a couple of years I was part of an online writing group with a screenwriter who was one of the 5 winners of the Academy Nicholl Fellowship in America. Time differences became too hard for me to keep writing with them, which is a shame. They were lovely.

Lovely to meet you RK!

 

[Barbara]

Welcome to the Colony.

I only eat cheese sandwiches while I ski

A bit tricky to unwrap them on the lift, I bet. Darn that clingfilm. Do you ski in the Swiss Alps? The best place for cheese and skiing (but I'm and ex-pat Swiss and would say that).

Great to have a screenwriter here.

 

[OscarBarby]

Welcome to the Colony.

A bit tricky to unwrap them on the lift, I bet. Darn that clingfilm. Do you ski in the Swiss Alps? The best place for cheese and skiing (but I'm and ex-pat Swiss and would say that).

Great to have a screenwriter here.

You unwrap them and eat them while skiing moguls for extra bonus points...

I have skied all over the Alps: French, Swiss, Italian and Austrian. Haven't quite made it to the Slovenian Alps yet...

Lovely to meet you.

 

[Jonny]

Hi @OscarBarby a very warm welcome to the colony.

Nice to have you here and hope you find Litopia a fun and informative community.

This is a good place to check out (How-to guide) to see a lot of what goes on.

If anything is unclear do please contact me and I’ll be happy to assist if I can.

Very partial to a cheese sandwich. The stronger the better, except for Stilton, which I can no longer stand after a particularly bad experience at a golf club.

 

[OscarBarby]

Hi @OscarBarby a very warm welcome to the colony.

Nice to have you here and hope you find Litopia a fun and informative community.

This is a good place to check out (How-to guide) to see a lot of what goes on.

If anything is unclear do please contact me and I’ll be happy to assist if I can.

Very partial to a cheese sandwich. The stronger the better, except for Stilton, which I can no longer stand after a particularly bad experience at a golf club.

Hi Jonny,

Thanks.

I am sure I will be in touch more than is healthy. A bit like Stilton really...

 

[MattScho]

Cheese makes sense being in the land of the Guernsey cow. Welcome, and enjoy. And the same bit of advice that I give everyone (it took me a couple months to learn): You get as much if not more for your writing through critiquing others than others critiquing you.

 

[Ancora Imparo]

Hi, @OscarBarby and welcome. Good to see you here. I have never skied in my life. But I've had lots of excellent cheese sandwiches, so we're good

Your work sounds great. I hope all goes well with the productions—and good luck with Oscar the Rabbit and Friends. Have fun around the colony.

 

[betsie]

Hey there OscarBarby,

Welcome, pull up a seat and chitchat for awhile

 

[KateESal]

Welcome to the colony, Oscar!

 

[Peyton Stafford]

Welcome and I look forward to reading what you have written or what you’re writing on now.