The ‘ability’ in accountability

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....

…the burlesque of inspiration

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...

Are you a Proper Writer? (Part II)

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...

Are you a Proper Writer?

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...

The different sides of stuck

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...