Winners! And how networking works...

I've never been part of a winning pub quiz team. Until tonight. Got drafted into a Shooting People pub quiz this evening, in Charing Cross Road's rather sizeable Montagu Pyke hostelry (formerly the legendary Marquee club, pop-pickers). It was a fun event, well organised and with good humour - even if the Pyke's technically less than ideal, with bad acoustics and a layout which doesn't exactly aid mingling. But you guessed it: we, The Development Pool, won. Hooray! My individual winnings were a DVD of Guide To Recognising Your Saints, an issue of Moviescope and - clearly the best bit - a year's extension to my Shooting People membership.

So how does networking dovetail into it all? Well, I was invited by the lovely Sarah Colley, a script reader and editor who I met at the Cheltenham Screenwriter's Festival. During this evening, I met more Nice People. Including a Nice Producer, who asked if I fancied working on a short horror script with him. So we'll see how that goes. But that's the joy of business card-swapping. You never know where it'll take you. Much like writing itself...

5 comments:

potdoll said...

nice work, mr pokery x

Andy Phillips said...

THuzzah for Nice Producers! Hope it leads to something good.

Dominic Carver said...

Business card swapping leads to dark alleys and your trousres down by your ankles....or is that just me??? :-S

Liz Holliday said...

Speaking of networking... *Pokes Jason* Email? Pretty please?

Liz

martin said...

Dom, that's just Bournemouth!