A Yacht called Failure

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After 20 years of producing videos, mainly of the travel documentary genre, I felt a need for change. Being a pioneer of the youtube era, I became tired of the treadmill one finds themselves on, of having to produce regular content in order to feed the machine. I also saw a change whereby videos became more about the creators and less about the content, and I think as one gets older, one becomes less willing to film some idealised version of their life. I wanted to sink my creative teeth into more meaty topics and fulfil a long held dream to write a book.

When I walked the Camino del Norte in 2019, partly with no money, it was an challenging experience, but I felt not a complete story. For an experience to be complete, I think it must change one in a permanent way. I now feel my Camino experience is producing it’s first fruit. A year of living on a small yacht, has continued the theme of living with less and I feel a circle is reaching completion.

Writing is quite different from filmmaking, but at it’s essence, it is the same. Can one craft a story that keeps the audience enthralled? With writing I now enjoy no longer having to speak in the first person. As Oscar Wilde best summed up, ‘Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.’ I also enjoy the creativity of fiction, no longer do I have to stick to an idea of the truth, as one tries to do with documentary filmmaking.

Above is a short story I prepared for a local 2,500 word writing competition. It is a mix of fact and fiction, set on a make believe nautical holiday park called Mullet Waters. Names have been changed to protect the guilty. It is the first story I’ve done using voice to text technology, whereby I used my smartphone to dictate the story from a brief outline. I hope you enjoy it.


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