That was the best piece of advice I got for my novel, and this weekend I managed to finish it and now I'm bummed out that I won't be able to feed that back to the person who provided me with such a sound turn of phrase. I don't know if you read my blog [...]
Why we can see it in others
Last night I was sat in the pub with some friends from the improvised comedy workshop I attend. We were all lovingly stroking each others egos and I got to thinking: 'why can't people see how good they are?' Example: one of the guys at improv is also a talented guitarist and songwriter but he [...]
These days
Nothing can make you miss your glory days like being trapped inside on a beautiful afternoon like this. I'm a writer so I'm not particularly adept to the outside world but how I would love to be a part of it today. It reminds me of those hot Spring and Summer months at University when [...]
Orchestrating my eulogy
Through no fault of my own I've been to a number of funerals lately, and with all the grieving aside (because that's something far too private to blog about even for me) it has got me thinking about when I'm eventually lowered. When one of my dear friends passed away late last year it was [...]
Tell me why (I’m alright with Mondays)
There was a time when I cursed Monday mornings, and in doing so decided to wrap Sunday evening up in that because it was part of my downfall. There's a feeling I used to get at about five pm on a Sunday evening that I can only relate to hand in deadlines at University, that [...]
Food, inglorious food
This is quite fitting because I'm actually hungry (which for this time in the morning is highly unusual). It's a topic that comes up quite a lot at home, at work and out and about because I have a very strange relationship with food. I've always been a skinny little thing, never peaking the eleven [...]
Why I have no time for office politics
I've been working in the office environment for three years now, and for the most part I don't actually mind too much, I know it's not what I want to be doing but it's the means to an end and blah blah blah. What I have serious issues with is the way people turn on [...]
Transformer
What an absolutely sublime album. Say what you will about his recent dabble with Metallica, listening to prime time Lou Reed is hard to beat. I only own Transformer because a girl on a bus overheard me talking about the Velvet Underground and told me it was one of the best albums she had ever [...]
Money < Happiness
Every morning I join the throngs of commuters on their way to our nations capital and I can't help but feel that I don't belong. This thought is reflected in their attitudes towards me, the way their noses raise up and the little smirk appears on their face that says to me 'you don't belong [...]
Fear of finishing
So at the weekend I reached the 90,000 work mark on my novel, a piece of work I started in June of last year and it looks like I'm actually going to do it, I'm going to finish. From the off I have said I want to write a hundred thousand words and although I [...]
