Part 1: Rewriting the script
Alister McDermott didn’t head to Hollywood to write a screenplay. He left the UK to find a different life by putting himself ‘out there.’ Lots of people dream of taking a chance, few do it. In the first of a four-part series for DQ, he begins the story of how he was, by degrees, seduced by the journey and dream of writing a television drama. I had my life changing epiphany while eating dim sum in a rundown Chinese restaurant in my hometown of Northampton, England. Maybe it was the distinct lack of flavour in my scallop dumpling that set off a chain reaction of self-doubt, but something made me question my very existence. What exactly was I doing with my life and did I like where it was heading? This moment of reckoning happened just as things in my life appeared to be finally heading in the right direction. Was I really having a meltdown at 39? My mid-life crisis was never going to see me squeezing my arse into a second hand Porsche dressed like Jeremy Clarkson. So why the sudden need to feel the winds of change rush through my hair? My event management business was going well, I lived in a three-storey town house and I had even just bought my favourite car to satisfy my unnecessary consumer desires. I had everything I thought I wanted in life, yet there still seemed to be something missing. Money had never been that important to me. The fact … Continue reading Part 1: Rewriting the script
