Need a Holiday

Phew! I’ve been so busy writing this blog every day without fail that I need a break. Literary gems such as you’ve been enjoying so frequently in the last few weeks don’t just flow from my fingers like water. Oh no, they’re hard work and they take their toll.
So I’m off with the family to [...]

I Ignore My Home Page

I had a great strategy for keeping myself on the blogging straight ‘n’ narrow: set my blog dashboard as my browser’s homepage! Simple eh? If the first thing I see every time I go online is my blog just begging for a new post I’ll get better at updating it regularly won’t I?
Well won’t I?
Clearly [...]

Funny Starbucks Story That Never Was

Here’s my problem with writing: I have a great idea for a story or a blog post and I spend days thinking about it — how funny it’s going to be, how I’m going to give it my own unique perspective, and I envision flopping down on a leather sofa and spontaneously banging out this [...]

Oh no…

…here comes another one of those tedious “Why I haven’t posted any entries in ages” entries.
You probably don’t care much why I haven’t been blogging, you just want to know that the drought is finally over and that normal rapier-wit service will be resuming directly.
I, on the other hand, feel I owe you an explanation [...]

Successful Non-writing Writer For Hire

Yes, this is another one in an ever-lengthening series of blog posts about why I haven’t written anything here lately. One of my best features as a budding writer is that I can think about writing all day: I have several ideas per hour, I jot little notes in my notebook, I file creative gems [...]

Wot… No Posts?

Yes. My handful of regular readers will doubtless be wondering what I’m playing at. Why has my regular blogging habit dissipated of late? I’m not really sure what is going on myself, but I’ll tell you what I know.
There are three main requirements to blogging. You need to have:

something to write about
time to write it
a [...]