If I was that big or clever, you'd've heard of me already.
But since you haven’t, I’m Cosmo (or just ’Smo)—(real name, not my choice).
I’ve spent my life acting as something between a pirate captain and a rodeo clown to a variety of industries—sometimes leading, sometimes following. At various times I’ve written scripts and stories, I’ve directed films, commercials, and AAA games. I know the elation of being chosen as the next big thing and the heartbreak of being rejected in the first round. I know what it’s like to helm massive projects with budgets in the tens of millions of dollars— also know the misery and stress of what happens when such projects go wrong: what it feels like to be fired from your dream job in front of your whole team. I ‘ve spent time in the thick of the action, and time as far away from the action as I can possibly get: a hermit in the wilderness of the Scottish Highlands, writing stories and scripts and wandering the mountain snow.
I began my career two decades ago at the bottom—and as worked my way from runner to director on film sets, I developed a number of other skills as I stacked shelves, brewed coffee, painted flats… and observed the leadership skills and creative impulses of many others, learning valuable lessons along the way. Over the course of those years I’ve helped start-ups and tech giants, found and lost good friends, made some inspired choices and some truly terrible ones, gained shrewd mentors and been hoodwinked by silver-tongued charlattans. I’ve met a lot of people I liked, a few legitimate geniuses among them, and created music and carved things out of wood along the way.
Working across three continents, I currently live with my wife Elisabeth in Denmark, with our animal friends Carlos the Dragon and Madame President.
This year I’ve written a feature script, a TV miniseries, and have started work on a new book about writing.
A story about a woman in the dark. (650 words).