Photo credit: from Steal Like an Artist by Austin Kleon (p 138) This is a poster presentation I gave at … More
Tag: Writing Process
KBO
‘80% of success is showing up.’ -Woody Allen I was chatting with a student the other day when I said … More
Guest blog post: Travelling without a visa, by Finuala Dowling
Travelling without a visa It seems to me that all writing comes from a place of resistance inside – … More
Ignore everyone, absorb everything
During the mad phase, when everything was a tweet or a share or a retweet, one of my favourite discoveries … More
Guest blog post: Whose life is it anyway? by John Foggin
A few weeks ago I was writing in my own blog, the great fogginzo’s cobweb, about the way I … More
Noticing again
Day four of the Twitter-fast. By the time you read this, day seven. The first thing I notice is the … More
It’s not about you, it’s me: on saying goodbye to Twitter
What I want is to – to be present. That’s what I’ve learned. I want to strive for presence, now, … More
Guest blog post: Writing my way through bereavement, by Sue Hepworth
Writing my way through bereavement I don’t approve of death. I’m with Edna St Vincent Millay: I am not … More
Influences: Alan Booth
I am taking a break from writing brand new blog posts over the summer. Instead of posting new work I … More
Thingless
I am taking a break from writing brand new blog posts over the summer. Instead of posting new work I … More
After the thing
I am taking a break from writing brand new blog posts over the summer. Instead of posting new work I … More
Publish more!
I am taking a break from writing brand new blog posts over the summer. Instead of posting new work I … More
Are you writing?
I am taking a break from writing brand new blog posts over the summer. Instead of posting new work I … More
Guest posts and summer reading
As I did last year, I will be taking a break from uploading new posts to this blog over August. … More
Guest Post: How I put The Art of Falling together, by Kim Moore
How I put The Art of Falling together In May 2012 my first pamphlet If We Could Speak Like Wolves … More
Guest Blog Post: On Literary Envy, by Robin Houghton
On Literary Envy “Comparison is the thief of joy” –Teddy Roosevelt You wake up one morning. You check in … More
Guest Blog Post: Dear Diary, by Josephine Corcoran
This is the second in a series of Guest Blog Posts that I am hosting this year. More are … More
The missing blog post
after and with apologies to Mark Halliday The missing blog post has gone AWOL. Never sure of its place in … More
Lifesaving Poems 