What’s this all about?

This is a slightly more modern format for me to get back into writing. I started off writing in 2012 on Wordpress (www.flikgeek.wordpress.com) during a spell of redundancy. And it took off in a moderately decent way. I covered Cinematic awards, blogged coverage of local film festivals, I wrote articles for small film-centred websites, it was going ok.

I studied cinema at university and always had dreams of being a film writer - whether it was books, for local media - anything. I love writing and find comfort and solace in focusing myself and channeling my thoughts into writing. But the economy had other plans. If it’s not obvious - writing, particularly on the topics of film doesn’t pay much. So alongside my writing, I jumped from corporate job to corporate job until I made my way from the UK to Jersey, Channel Islands where I’ve got a reasonably solid career and settled down into married life and the newest member of our household, Bo the ginger rescue cat.

So to fill the void of a dream unrealised, I started my substack. And the Flikgeek branding is gone - this is going to be me, posting as me, posting about the things I love. I am a hardcore media consumer, films is my main passion, but I’ll be branching out into books, games and TV. I’ll do reviews, thought pieces, recommendations, anything really. So please feel free to visit the archives over at flikgeek.wordpress.com, but as with any fresh start, I’ll be posting here (hopefully regularly where my schedule allows)

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