When the world’s biggest oinker called seasoned White House correspondent, Catherine Lucey, “piggy,” the world was horrified.
Of the many stains on the soiled toilet-paper roll of horrors Donald Trump has delivered, I don’t know why this one upsets me so much. But it does. And I know I’m not alone.
Bollocks, I say. In defense of human voices. There’s been a bit of a thing online lately where people are questioning the point of creative work, now that AI is replacing so many skilled craftspeople in the creative industries. Fuck that. If you’ll happily surrender your creative outlet because a machine can have a fair …
Three things have crossed my desk over the past week that have made me think about the future and the world we’re making for ourselves. They also got me thinking about the number one way we can future proof ourselves and our way of life as a tsunami of technological breakthroughs led by mind-blowing advances …
The pressure creatives feel in challenging times No matter what creative field you’re in, you do what you do because you’re attuned to the world and the people in it, so when that world is in trouble, it can be a struggle keeping perspective about the things going on around you. Allowing the creative muse …
Every writer’s been there. That terrible moment where we really should be writing, but choose to do anything but. Here are the tricks that get me writing again.
The question I’m asked most often by aspiring writers is how it’s done; my answer is pretty simple: Write… Just write… then write some more. This is expanding on one of the points I made the other day about some of the things that work for me as a writer. And this is in response …
Over @threads, the debate about whether or not audio books can be considered ‘real’ books and whether listening to them actually constitutes ‘reading’ has reared its head again. A disclaimer, first. I do have a horse in this particular race for a couple of reasons. For one, the audio book of my novel, The Water …
Writing isn’t easy, or everyone would do it. But if you’ve been bitten by the bug, that’s it. You’re done. And if you’ve caught the disease, I’m here to help. If you won’t be satisfied until you’re chained to a keyboard churning out your magnus opus, you may well like some advice. And that’s where …
So now I embark on what ranks as my least favourite part of the “oh, hey, yeah, I’m a writer” way of life. The sitting around waiting after my manuscript has been sent out for consideration. Right now, it’s with my agent. If she gives it the thumbs up, it goes out to publishers. Which …
Today’s been a good day. A very good day. For my writerly work, I mean. I’ve been skipping around certain pretty enormous shifts I had to make to my manuscript, and when I woke up this morning, I knew that today was the day. And that I didn’t want to stop until the job was …