This website is under re-development after so kindly being hacked by someone with no life. I find it a shame that fun can be had doing such a rubbish activity and if I had time to spare in my happy life, I would no doubt find something more constructive and down right pleasurable to do!
Slapped Face is the writing and theatre arm of my business – and to be honest my main hobby besides – and the name came from being so annoyed at a publisher for holding onto my work for 6 months only to tell me they didn’t want it but that it was certainly publishable. This piece of advice led to 5 years of attempting to get my childrens novel published to no avail until I gave up after realising it had gone out of date and I had no interest in re-writing it! In fact, I often feel like I have been slapped in the face, I guess I must just have been cursed by a goblin. More likely it is because my writing does not conform to what is required. I learnt all about structure and plot-line curves, how my characters need to behave, conflict and resolution, hooks and the importance of the beginning and the end. Then I threw it away and did my own thing.
I will be posting some of my writing here (mainly so I don’t lose it when my computer inevitably dies when in the middle of doing the most important thing I will ever do and I forget all my passwords and user names to the back up cloud I have hovering somewhere in cyberspace – which I keep in one of many small writing books which I deposit around the house and can never find when I need them).
I also offer workshops should anyone want them, yes, I am CRB cleared and have public liability insurance but to be honest, what is probably more important is that I am quite good at doing them and will offer groups a chance to use their imagination to escape the boredom and rules of our usual day to day existance.
So there we have it.
My email – should you feel the need to contact me (and no I do not want to optimise my site, host your group for a week upon my providing all my personal details or accept your fortune when you pass away – I have accepted my life will not amount in me being well off and have embraced this fact with glee) – is jill@highpeakstudio.com.