He's left university and now wants to find fame and fortune as a scriptwriter. In the following months Kieren will be submitting scripts, writing a feature film and pitching his ideas for cartoons and comics. Will he make his dreams come true? Follow his progress here, at his monthly blog. OCTOBER 29, 2006 My name is Kieren Brown, I’m 24 years old and having lived in this city for my entire life (barring a three year spell at uni) I’m a Brummie through and through.
 | | Kieren Brown, visiting BBC Birmingham |
As a small child, stories captivated my imagination. I remember laying under the covers with my flashlight at night as a chubby child reading the Ladybird books my mom bought me each week completely swept away in the amazing adventures taking place in the far away worlds that were depicted in my fertile imagination. You see, as a somewhat portly kid, brimming with shyness and somewhat stilted social graces, I wasn’t one of the cool kids at school and stories were pretty much the main source of my happiness, they meant the world to me and still do to this day. At the age of seven, I discovered the genius of the late (and great) Roald Dahl through books, such as The Twits, Matilda, Danny the Champion of the World, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. They completely blew my mind with their ridiculousness; hilarity, and attention to detail and that man quickly became my childhood hero. I would read his books again and again and again, I just couldn’t get bored of them (and to any parents out there I strongly recommend you buy them for your own children)! Looking back as an adult, while I never consciously realised it back then, I was always destined to become a writer! RoboDuckula
 | | Kieren Brown, visiting BBC Birmingham |
My first foray into the art of the scribe didn’t exactly set the world alight! At age 9, after having seen both the cartoon Count Duckula and the movie Robocop (don’t ask me how I managed to get my hands on an 18 certificate film at such a young age because I couldn’t tell you), my feverish childlike imagination spliced the two together to create RoboDuckula; a half vegetarian vampire, half futuristic machine, 100% genocidal being of bedlam completely and utterly hell bent on wreaking havoc and destruction upon society at large! I made this on a tape recorder with the help of a cousin with using all manner of vocally produced gun effects, explosions, obscenities and expletives you’d be aghast hear on TV before the 9pm watershed and was lucky enough to have my daddy find the tape! Let’s just say that the punishment I received for that transgression was swift, brutal, and memorable. Time to make his mark Anyways 15 years on and having now just left university, I am focusing all of my energies into realising my dream of becoming the world’s greatest scriptwriter and through the course of these monthly blogs you will journey with me as I strive to make my mark on the world.
 | | Kieren Brown |
I’ll pitch my cartoon “Captain Impulse Version 3.1” to animation studios, write my first feature film “Real Love”, set up my online dance music website “Ground Zero”, submit scripts to BBC Doctors in the hopes of getting an episode made, nag the hell out of comics publishers to get them to take on “Tempest” and a hell of a lot of other things! Will I make it as a writer? I believe so. How long will it take? Your guess is as good as mine, what I can say is it’s sure to be one hell of a journey I’m embarking upon and I hope that you can be there with me throughout. Cheers, Kieren | 
