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In the spirit of blogging this whole writing experience, it seems apt to mark this moment of sending off the first draft to the publishers. And while that is no doubt a moment of victory. I feel a little like I’m being judged in my celebration of that from academia with a sort of hairContinueContinue reading “‘What if I don’t think about the books’ Fear and finishing project book.”

Across September I ran or walked a mile every day. This was part of a challenge set by my friend Jeff. A huge advocate of running for mental as well as physical wellbeing, Jeff himself is running every day this decade…so a month seemed like the least I could do challenge wise. Why do it? It’s 2020ContinueContinue reading “What Running for 30 Days taught me”

 In the spirit of blogging this whole writing experience, it seems apt to mark this moment of sending off the first draft to the publishers. And while that is no doubt a moment of victory. I feel a little like I’m being judged in my celebration of that from academia with a sort of hairContinueContinue reading “\’What if I don\’t think about the books\’ Fear and finishing project book.”

 In the spirit of blogging this whole writing experience, it seems apt to mark this moment of sending off the first draft to the publishers. And while that is no doubt a moment of victory. I feel a little like I’m being judged in my celebration of that from academia with a sort of hairContinueContinue reading “\'What if I don\'t think about the books\' Fear and finishing project book.”

 Usually, when I write one of these it’s a bold, brash ‘gobby bisexual’ flag-waving exercise. And that’s important. I don’t have any illusion that what I say matters in the bigger picture, but if being a gobby, flag-waving bisexual has helped someone once, then it’s worth it. In fact, a good friend of mine readContinueContinue reading “The Wine Not the Label”

visual representation of me looking at edits So project Angels book enters its final weeks (sort of) its due at the publishers on 1st October. And after a long long time working on it, failing, stalling, giving up. I might just have something to finally send. So I thought blogging these stages might be useful ifContinueContinue reading “Fuck You I\’m a Prophet (and I will finish this book)”

visual representation of me looking at edits So project Angels book enters its final weeks (sort of) its due at the publishers on 1st October. And after a long long time working on it, failing, stalling, giving up. I might just have something to finally send. So I thought blogging these stages might be useful ifContinueContinue reading “Fuck You I\'m a Prophet (and I will finish this book)”

Old habits die hard, and the start of a new academic year seems a good time to reflect and plan. Given my Birthday is the end of August too, September 1st always feels like a bit of reset time. I normally quote Rent, and ask ‘how do you measure, measure a year?’ but really, howContinueContinue reading “Back to School Time…”

Some days you churn out 1000s of words of post-apocalyptic fiction (because what else there) some days you end up down a Youtube rabbit hole. And that’s ok. Unlike many of my older Millennials, I am a HUGE advocate of Youtubers. I think they’re super creative, interesting people…and also a total car crash. Basically the perfectContinueContinue reading “Down the YouTube Rabbit hole (or how I\’m holding on to some sanity)”

Some days you churn out 1000s of words of post-apocalyptic fiction (because what else there) some days you end up down a Youtube rabbit hole. And that’s ok. Unlike many of my older Millennials, I am a HUGE advocate of Youtubers. I think they’re super creative, interesting people…and also a total car crash. Basically the perfectContinueContinue reading “Down the YouTube Rabbit hole (or how I\'m holding on to some sanity)”