Writing ⌨️
Podcasts and posts about creativity, writing and advice for creating online
Day One
After using it for a year I thought I’d write about Day One App, as it’s some of best money I’ve ever spent on software.
I Forgot I Nearly Died
Weird Synchronicities. This week I forgot I nearly died and then found myself at The War Inside, a play about that exact moment in my life.
Remember Writing It?
There are blogposts on this website that I have absolutely no memory of writing – *at all*
Speed of Thought | 2314
For me now, at this point in my life, writing and thinking are co-continuous. I type between 55-60 words per minute – the speed of thought.
Not Having Done
“If you enjoy Having Done so much, why do you have a hard drive full of hundreds of thousands of words of shit you haven’t finished?”
The Doing | 2237
The biggest problem a creative person faces is that between ‘The Dream’ and ‘The Having Done’ is ‘The Doing’.
Different Lengths
I’ve spent the week trying to write things at/of different lengths. Sitting down with a timer, set to 20mins or 40. Just practicing to see how I go.
10 Tips For Creating Online | 2229
After 4 years and nearly 200 podcast episodes, here’s 10 tips for creating online in 2022
Things (Un)finished | 2209
With everything going on in the world over the last few years it has felt selfish to work on creative the things that I feel matter to me.
One Thing at a Time | 2204
This is by no means a world shattering observation. But have over 50 things on my list of things to do means that I’m not finishing anything.
Some Things to Get Done | 2203
I woke up this morning with no idea what I was going to talk about on the show today. As it turned out, ambitions for 2022.
The Fear of Finding Out | 2201
The Long Fear. It’s the question in the dead of the night. It’s there when things are going well, it remains unanswered when you procrastinate
In The Edit | 2146
Lack of copy editing is extremely transparent to a reader. Editing on the other hand is invisible to the reader, but transparent to the writer
Dealing With Procrastination | 2145
The horror as my depression lifted at the beginning of the UK lockdown. It wasn’t depression stopping me. It was something far worse. Me.
Stage or a Clock?
I touched on productivity anxiety during my podcast this week. It’s something that’s been bothering me a lot this year, especially in the weeks before we went on holiday last month.
Do the Things That Need Doing | 2143
The work of body one leaves behind after action, is not left behind in the past. It is a nest of materials that one unfolds into the future from within.
