There is so much out there that you can watch and listen to and read, and it can all feed into the compost heap. There is enough that I can fall in love and then forget someone and then rediscover them again. I loved The Commitments when it came out. An age ago I found The Swell… Read More Monday
I am 86 days into writing my 365 Projects — prose, poetry, and non-fiction. It is not always the easiest to get it done, I don’t suppose. I have had to push being awake to the limits some days to get the work done, but I am in love with the work. It feels like… Read More Sunday
I am 10 days in on Project 365 for poetry, prose and non-fiction and I am enjoying it. I couldn’t even explain quite how it happens, but an aesthetic sort arrives as something is both conceived and put into action. I have this whole shared universe that I have built, but given the way that… Read More Tuesday
Today bit the dust thanks to a stomach bug. I got to work and started trying to plough through what I needed to plough through, but it was becoming pretty obvious that the initial pale sickly feeling that slipped over me in the car was not going to lift to a point where I wasn’t… Read More Wednesday
A rare Monday off. Hardly need to explain that this has not been daily. I definitely went through something in the last year where sitting down to write about my writing was harder, because I barely had enough time and energy to write. It was a busy year in many ways, but it was also… Read More Monday
Allergies are a bitch. Florida has a lot of things to be allergic to. I lost most of the day because something is making my ears react like I have an inner ear infection. That means that my stomach acts like I have an inner ear infection. Can’t sit up to move, and can’t eat… Read More Saturday
When you are living life, time seems by the by. I don’t look at my watch and I find myself shuttled through the day by doing what I need to do. How different is that to a good book. The physical universe often only seems a slog because you focus on the friction of the… Read More Sunday
Do I know Elon Musk? No. Do I know Johnny Depp? No. What about these stories around them are supposed to inspire interest? Their effect and proximity to you. With Musk and Twitter maybe that is an easier pitch, because you may have used the social media platform he just bought, so you have skin… Read More Thursday
I have been watching Living The Line on YouTube and hearing about different comic book writers approaches to storytelling. Not one of them seems to use the same system. They each have elements of their process that chime with the other creative processes. I never really want to adopt another’s methods, but sometimes I’ll snag… Read More Tuesday
I am kind of in a surreal space at the moment. I started two projects — one called Toffee Amorous, which is going to be an off-kilter love story spinning off a pun on toffee hammers. The second is called We Set Fire To The Sandwich, and I have no idea what it is meant to… Read More Sunday