Writing
Noooooo…tebooks
We knew it would happen one day, but I never wanted to admit it. My obsession with buying notebooks has it a point were it is becoming unmanageable.
Anxiety
Words-Per-Day
One of the things I used to be really really ridiculously proud of was my ability to speed-write.
Writing
New Book, New Year!
It was one of those unexpected twists of life. Somebody contacted me through this very website over the winter break. What was perhaps the most interesting thing about that is how they weren’t a spam bot, but a real-life actual human being! That very not-spam-bot person was children’s author Katrina Read more…
Event
Children’s Poetry with Carole Bromley
This year, at the NAWE conference, I attended an amazing workshop run by Carole Bromley all about writing children’s poetry. It was quite an intense hour and a half. She got us to write a selection of children’s poems in different forms and then read them out to the group. Terrifying! Read more…
Freelancer
More Haste, Less Speed
More Haste, Less Speed is a phrase my mother loved to use when I was a child.
As I write stories for children, it is a phrase that often pops into my own head as well. I used to think that I needed to get everything done as quickly as possible.
Freelancer
A New Look!
I was recently in Edinburgh with my wife. While exploring the city – which is dripping with history, haggis and Harry Potter shops – an idea struck me.
I was facing the problem that I didn’t really know what I wanted to do in my career (or this website.) A next step seemed impossible. I kept separating myself into different roles (see my last blog post) and as a result, I was struggling to find a purpose. What did I want to do? What should I focus on? (more…)
Dungeons and Dragons
My Website and Me – Who am I?
I’ve been thinking about this website a lot recently – about what I like about it and what I don’t like about it. I originally designed it to be my professional corner of the internet but… I’m not really interested in all that. I’d much rather have a corner of the internet that reflects me and who I am.
This, of course, raises the question who am I? (more…)