Read to the end for literary constipations such as:
- Two guys on a motorway discuss quitting their job;
- Britain’s only fully-automated luxury petrol station (powered by AI, of course);
- My commentary: how I feel being back in the saddle.
The Flat Tyre
Tag: writing
WTDWA? – An Essay For My St. Andrews Uni Application
This is a VIP (Very Important Post) with some UAE (Understanding, Analysis, and Evaluation) from an SOB (guess) on acronyms.
Continue readingThe Pen Shall Make Ye Fret
If you read to the end, right now, within my lifetime, ‘cos I can’t be doing this for all eternity, you’ll get these three consternations for the price of one:
- Oh, hey, I might get to write for a living;
- Recognising my flaws as a storyteller, and what I can do about ’em;
- Things you can expect on this blog soon…
Fool Me Twice, We Don’t — Err, What Was That First Thing You Said?
Read to the end for good news, such as;
- Brologue is now available on Bluesky…
- …Even though I don’t trust ’em.
Writing As If Already Free
Read to the end for fascinating insights on:
- Brologue, six months in;
- What it means to write as if already free.
The Art of the Job Application Rejection
- Stare at screen;
- Jobhunting kinda makes me not want to hunt jobs;
- Let me write please? As a treat?
Terry Pratchett’s ‘The Fifth Elephant’
On Productivity
- I tried to read Getting Things Done. It’s a slog, but it does have one thing worth remembering;
- Productivity is about being more deliberate about what you do, not about doing more;
- Whenever we see a piece of productivity advice, we should ask – “Productivity to what kinds of political ends?”
- I’m writing a story. Maybe I’ll publish it one day…
English Makes a Lot of Sense
- English is one of, if not the hardest foreign language to learn. There’s so many little things about it that are as though we’ve made them up as a sick joke.
- The solution? According to one guy, do what we’ve always done: crib some notes from other languages.
On the Journal as a Prosthesis
- My (re?)discovery of journalling – and how I reclaimed it from instrumentation.
- Good intentions – or, when other people think they know your condition better than you, but they mean well.