I have been given a brutally honest awakening about the dangers of being…well…so brutally honest. It’s hard to admit when you’re wrong. I don’t know anyone who can casually sail through life allowing criticism to bounce off them harmlessly. Writers and artists in particular can find it really hard to take criticism. But to […]
Continue readingKind of a Good News/Bad News week which has given me pause for thought and made me believe strongly in the power of karma and the unrelenting power of family genes. Good News I’ve been asked to be a regular contributor to a dating site as a kind of “Relationship & Dating Expert”. The […]
Continue readingWhen you talk with writers both successful and struggling one of the (many) things we will always say is that “material can come from anywhere and everywhere”. We might say it in different ways or add overly colourful metaphors to it, but it all boils down to the same thing. A good story can come […]
Continue readingI received some negative feedback on a story I’d been commissioned to write recently. After I’d finished swearing, crying, throwing notepads and books across the room, drinking, passing out and sobering up…I realised something. Sometimes you have to write terribly. When I was able to go back and look at the feedback I had been […]
Continue readingHaving a ‘to do’ list saves my life practically every day. I find that if I don’t have one I end up starting the day with a vague idea of what it is I want to do and need to do, but in reality end up doing fuck all. I know because I […]
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