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Snowflakes – Photoshoot Briefing
- By Steve Catto
- . October 18, 2023
I found this document from 2017, which was sent to modelling agencies and production members when we were setting up
Author Q&A
- By Steve Catto
- . October 18, 2023
…I’ve always wanted to write fiction as a form of expression. Reading back a paragraph or a chapter, and seeing all the imagery rebuilding itself in my mind is a wonderful experience. It’s a feeling of achievement, of satisfaction. I’ve never felt that in anything else I’ve done in my life.
#TenThings
- By Steve Catto
- . February 11, 2019
…I come from the North of England, but I grew up in Australia. In the 1960’s my parents decided, for reasons that are unlikely to become clear ever again, to emigrate. I think that the vision of a New World and the promise of a Land of Opportunity was something that my father was unable to resist. That would have been fine if he’d been a businessman but he wasn’t. I’m sure there were great possibilities there but he simply got a string of boring jobs like the ones he’d had back in England. It was never ‘home’ for me and I came back to the UK when I was twenty. My parents came with me – which wasn’t what I’d wanted because I’d been hoping to get away from them.
The Importance of Setting
- By Steve Catto
- . August 31, 2017
Although the writing gurus are fond of repeating their mantra of ‘show don’t tell’ there is still a place for descriptive writing. Not everywhere of course, but in works that are heavy on the narrative and what is called the ‘omni’ point of view, it does still work, and stories involving settings are perfect for it. The flickering flames, the dark shapes against the trees, the sparks, the smoke, the blue skies and clouds, the beautiful sunsets, the sparkling starlit nights, the thunderstorms, and the snowflakes which spiral out of the sky and lend their name to the title of the book. Billions of snowflakes, one for every soul in the world, and no two the same… or so you might be led to believe.
Humour and Comedic Moments
- By Steve Catto
- . May 17, 2017
People have spent a lifetime studying comedy and have never come to a conclusion about exactly what it is or, for that matter, how to write it, but we all know what it is when we hear it. That’s probably because there are so many different kinds of comedy and, to some extent, we all find different things funny.