A New Notebook
Witness the pressure of a new notebook. You sit at your desk, trying to get it started with an amazing piece of writing. Something worthy of …
Writing
19 posts
The Long Post
I am writing a long post that I will either publish as one long post (about five or six thousand words) or as about seven smaller ones each …
On Writing As It Happens
I’m pretty close to a round number. To date I have written 298,500 words for this blog, not counting posts that I have discarded or deleted. …
October and November 2014
I recently started a new job and moved in to a new flat. This means I’m too busy to write any long blog posts at the moment. Also …
Useful Ulysses
Five lessons from a year of blogging
I have now been writing decent length articles on this site for about a year. I have learned a lot in this time, mostly about writing but …
Five Superheroes We Can Live Without
The other day while writing some rather self-pitying notes in my blog book (yes, I handwrite all this rubbish before I go to bed at night!) …