Sep 18, 2013 | coaching, tools, Uncategorized
I’ve been thinking a lot about accountability lately. It’s something that we love to hate. (and if you’ve not got a heap of time, please click here and tell me how you like your accountability to look. Thanks!) We need it, but wish we didn’t....
Sep 12, 2013 | blogging, creativity
If you’re blogging, you’ll know this already: keeping readers interested is like a sustained burlesque striptease. Reveal a bit, hide behind a fan. Reveal some more, shimmy! I’m an ex-dancer (not like an ex-parrot though), but I was never any good at...
Aug 27, 2013 | tools, writing
Last week I was talking about what you think a Proper Writer does. Who they are, what they do, how they live, and especially, what characteristics make them a Writer. Inside everyone who writes there lives a Stereotypical Writer, and that’s who we were defining...
Aug 20, 2013 | Uncategorized
If you’re finding writing really hard right now, you might want to think about this: What is your idea of a ‘proper,’ Capital-W Writer? Because if your expectations of who a Writer is and how they behave differs significantly from who you are and how...
Aug 12, 2013 | creativity, tools, Uncategorized, writing
You know how I like to talk about ‘stuck’? Well I’m going to be doing it again today. Feel free to go and potter amongst other posts if you’ve never felt the particular horror of your hands paralysed on your keyboard, brain in a total...