After falling off into unwanted flexitarianism… — Today I was working on the laptop. My partner had returned from work early. We had a quick chat. I interrupted the flow of the conversation to look at my watch. ‘I’ve got to eat lunch’ I said. He raised his eyebrow as Sean Connery used to in James Bond. ‘You need…

For the purposes of this article, pretend I am a deadly highwayman — Picture the scene. It’s 1700 and something. You are travelling in your carriage, one a bit like that picture above. You’ve made good progress. The town is far behind you now. The pair of smartly turned out horses are trotting along through woods. Suddenly, the carriage driver pulls up the…

Do you have a pacing problem too? Mine is that I go from one hundred miles an hour to a snail’s pace often all in the same day. — Earlier this week I thought I’d sit down to write something. I have a few places I publish to, other projects that are works in progress and sit in my folders. The article I had in mind was for Medium because I want to keep some consistency of publishing here. …

Notes on how you can deal with the inevitable rejection as a writer and how practising something called fast failure can help — I used to take failure badly. That’s just as well because when I first published this article, not one single eyeball wanted to read it (until I tweaked the title and now it’s viral obv). Anyway, back to feeling a failure. You know, that hot rush of shame creeping up…

What a clever trick to keep us churning out the content! — When I was a child, I dreamed of being a writer. Aged about nine or ten, Alison Vaughan (where are you now Alison) and I wandered the school playground during our breaks with a hardback A4 notebook. In the notebook, we took turns to scribble sentences of our latest creative…

Lessons Straight from the Self-Publishing Trenches — I self-published to Kindle Direct on Amazon a year ago. Here are a few things I wish someone had told me beforehand. If you are thinking about taking the self-publishing route too, these tips will help. If you’ve already self-published to Amazon and think I’ve missed anything you’d like to share, do let me know in the comments! Get your content as good as it can be then get an editor and proof-reader anyway

A Neurodiversity Celebration Week Reflection From An ADHD Writer — This week is Neurodiversity Celebration Week. I would ordinarily plan to craft a piece that would focus on the positives of being a neurodivergent individual. I don’t want to write a negative article bitching about all the views expressed that I don’t share. But there is this one perspective that…