It’s fine to own a mountain of empty notebooks, absolutely normal and fine and sane! The sherpa who guides me through the Himalayan-sized pile of notebooks in my office tells me so anyway. New notebooks, old worn down pads, ones…
As I’ve ranted about ad infinitum, I haven’t written or read anything in a hell of a long time! But, recently on holiday I took a book with me. Partly the habit of having a good book with you at…
The best I can figure it, the last time I wrote anything was early 2017. 2017. TWO. THOUSAND. SEVENTEEN! Jebus. Fuppin’. Christ. You think lethargy and apathy are things that would sneak up on you, I mean come on –…
Last week I hit a decidedly despicable peak of dreariness and posted the following to Facebook: Been gutted to be missing out on cons for a couple of years now…and extra sad that it’s out of my hands at the…
It’s time to admit the truth. I haven’t written anything for over two years now. No novels, novellas, novelettes, not even a novspresso; no short stories or flash fiction or six-word stories; no planning or drafting or brainstorming, no ideas…
“Got a monkey on my back. Got a monkey on my back. Gonna change my ways tonight. Nobody’s fault but mine.” Same shit, different day – lack of motivation, writer’s block, lazyarseitis…whatever you call it, I haven’t worked on anything…
Seriously, before you read this post…find your latest novel/short/poem/screenplay and hit SAVE! Hit it multiple times, hit it with vigour and purpose, hit it with a large tree branch ripped from the nearest Larch! Don’t do that last one, it will…
My first FCon was in 2013 – which happened to be World FantasyCon, so I had to hit the ground running with a hell of a lot more authors than normal (pesky international buggers as well!) – I was terrified,…
I submitted my latest short story the other week (to non UK people “the other week” can mean anything up to ten years ago), and it felt…well, kind of anticlimactic. I even managed to stop hitting refresh on my emails…