August 22nd, 2008
Where work is concerned, I am pretty self disciplined to get on with it and get things done (ADD-related issues aside). It’s a good thing, this self discipline. But if permitted too much free reign, it completely skews the work-life balance.
Old habits
Getting going in the morning is easy: do everything I can to physically start [...]
June 29th, 2008
No, it’s not a code-name for the next TableRappers book, but the arrival of a critical decision point.
In typically ADD-brain type activity, I have once again taken on too much in too short a time. It’s a viscious circle to which, I suspect, many readers of this blog can relate.
Ideas, and potential projects abound, and [...]
April 21st, 2008
Vacation is looming in a few days and I am experiencing all the usual internal turbulence in the lead-up.
It’s ridiculous, but I find the week or so leading to a vacation terrible stressful - to the point of not wanting to go. Once I am fully engaged in the journey, however, it all starts to [...]
March 8th, 2008
The only thing you need as a writer is stamina because you have just got to be able to finish your book. Most people can’t. That’s the whole trick of it. [...]
January 9th, 2008
I don’t get much in the way of luck. Don’t get me wrong here, I do not feel I am unlucky per se, it’s just the entirely random and I do not share a man-hug and a cold beer - ever.
The luck I’m talking about here is not the life-changing, opportunity-knocks kind of luck, but [...]
December 26th, 2007
For no reason at all I walked past one of our bookshelves at home a this book stood out: 1001 Smartest Things Ever Said. And I had a thought…
Flicking through, there are a wealth of thought provoking and valuable quotes - just with any book of quotations, I suppose. Take a minute and consider hat [...]
September 7th, 2007
In recent weeks at home we have been catching up on past episodes of Coast: a BBC series (just completed series 3) which highlights areas of interest - that means pretty much every inch - of Britain’s coastline.
Scene after scene I spot places I’ve been to growing up but have forgotten, and Jen spots countless [...]