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		<title>Delusions Of Grandeur</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[As if any more evidence were needed that Russell T Davies is suffering from some form of mental illness that convinces him that he&#8217;s The World&#8217;s Best Writer this is it: Writing isn&#8217;t just a job that stops at six-thirty… It&#8217;s a mad, sexy, sad, scary, obsessive, ruthless, joyful, and utterly, utterly personal thing. There&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As if any more evidence were needed that Russell T Davies is suffering from some form of mental illness that convinces him that he&#8217;s The World&#8217;s Best Writer this is it:</p>
<blockquote><p>Writing isn&#8217;t just a job that stops at six-thirty… It&#8217;s a mad, sexy, sad, scary, obsessive, ruthless, joyful, and utterly, utterly personal thing. There&#8217;s not the writer and then me; there&#8217;s just me. All of my life connects to the writing. All of it.</p></blockquote>
<p>First off Russell you&#8217;re British &#8211; unless living in Los Angeles has made you forget where you&#8217;re from &#8211; and we British don&#8217;t put commas before the and at the end of a list. Oh, and one more thing, enough with the adjectives, there are only so many we can process.</p>
<p>Still, looking at him I doubt he&#8217;s that bothered.</p>
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<p>Really though what an atrocious piece of self aggrandization! </p>
<p>It was culled from <a href="http://www.thewriterstale.co.uk/scr.html">The Writer&#8217;s Tale</a>, where by the grace of Davies himself you can download copies of the Doctor Who scripts. We can see us having some fun with those.</p>
<p>The thing is, paragraphs like that are usually reserved for septuagenarian stage actors or authors on the South Bank Show. Not deluded Welsh homosexuals with messiah complexes.</p>
<p>If his writing was really that important to him, you&#8217;d think he&#8217;d actually have spent some time learning to do it properly, wouldn&#8217;t you?</p>
<p>Or is that just us?</p>
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