I’ve been enthusiastically re-watching the Australian series Seachange since I unpacked a box containing my old videos – if you don’t know it, it ran in Australia from 1998-2000 on the ABC, starring Sigrid Thornton as big-city-lawyer turned small-town-magistrate Laura Gibson.
In any case, towards the end of Series 2 there’s an episode called Not Such Great Expectations where leading man Max Connors is trying to write a novel. I sympathise. But I’m grateful to have fewer problems than he seems to in getting started. Throughout an entire episode, he …