craiggrannell

craiggrannell, 3 hours ago

@pixelscience The sad thing is that Sky can be measured and balanced when it comes to analysis. God knows how this got through the editorial process. Probably another facet of editors being bored with another “Labour kicking bottom” story and trying to fashion tension when there is none.

craiggrannell, 20 hours ago

@yesterzine Our council votes in thirds, and so there’s always something to vote for. I admit I would find it hard to maintain my 100% voting record if the PCC one was all I was heading out for.

craiggrannell, 18 hours ago

@ravi We don’t watch much TV these days, TBF. Netflix survives until June. But after that, I think it’ll only be Apple TV (due to Apple One) and then one other service at a time.

craiggrannell, 15 hours ago

@simonharper @ravi If you’re on the old Basic plan in the UK (and some other territories), you’ll soon be forcibly moved to the ads plan, unless you pay more for Standard. The same shit Disney+ pulled in the US. (In the UK, Disney+ retained a sort of middle ground HD option.)

craiggrannell, 2 hours ago

@BenCotterill well spotted. :)

craiggrannell, 1 day ago

@BenRiceM I mean, you got a free polybag, so that makes it all worthwhile, right?

craiggrannell, 1 day ago

@BenRiceM I think it would have been criminal not to go for it. #enabler

craiggrannell, 1 day ago

I’m not sure other writers have this problem, but one thing I’ve never been able to shake is a nagging feeling that if I don’t spend enough time on something, I’m somehow cheating the recipient out of their money, regardless of the quality of what I produce.

Of course, when you’ve been doing this for 25+ years, people are paying for your experience – your ability to craft a story. My editors couldn’t give the tiniest shit if I spend five hours or five minutes on a piece if it’s good.

craiggrannell, 1 day ago

@medievalist Yep. I’d not really tied it to that, but of course it’s the same thing. I wasn’t educated in writing – I just fell into it. So I still live in the certainty that at some point, I’ll be ‘found out’, as though 25 years of experience in the field is somehow worthless.

My wife, with slight exasperation, reminds me of this now and again. And then my brain resets and goes into anxiety mode. But what if THIS TIME they find me out?

Gah. Stupid brain.

craiggrannell, 1 day ago

@glennf I have averages knocking around too – ideally, I don’t want to spend more than X hours/days doing work I’m being paid £Y for. Even so, if I blaze through something and it’s good, the nagging doubt creeps in.

Someone else responded that it’s part of imposter syndrome, and that sounds about right. Close to a quarter century doing this stuff and still my brain’s all “Yeah, but what if THIS TIME they find you out?”

Brains are weird. And not always helpful.

craiggrannell, 1 day ago

@glennf I can’t imagine a world in which I earned $200/hr. A couple of half days per week and you’d be sorted.

craiggrannell, 1 day ago

@glennf Freelancers don’t get paid vacations nor things like parental leave. When the govt tried to ‘equalise’ the National Insurance Contributions, I wrote to my (Tory) MP, saying I thought this was a GREAT idea and adding that I assumed this would mean equal benefits for people like me, who got no paternity leave when my daughter was born. Alas, my timing was such that the policy was dropped before he replied, and he was all I AM NOT TALKING ABOUT THIS.

craiggrannell, 15 hours ago

@angry_drunk infinite screams

craiggrannell, 16 hours ago

@llamasoft_ox That set-up would be great fun for Grid Runner too.

craiggrannell, 22 hours ago

@patrick_h_lauke @jonhicks @malarkey Totally backed up by the checks notes two Reform councillors England now has.

But, yes, that’s the only lesson the Tories will take from this. Be worse. Which will drag Labour and the Libs with them. Again.