The hardest lesson over the last 6 months, since I quit my job and threw myself into self-employment, has been learning the value of uncertainty.
Storytelling: Free eBook – “How To Make People Care About Anything”
Update: go here for my more recent 10-part series on storytelling for beginners. Storytelling. It’s not just for fun. It underpins everything. And I have a lot to say on this topic. So I put it all into an ebook. Click here to download “Storytelling or How To Make People Care About Anything“ (PDF, 6.5mb) Problems opening when saved to … Read More
Storytelling: 5 Stories I Tell Myself When I Write
This is a post about the lies I tell myself when I’m writing.
Freelance Writing: Don’t Do These 5 Things
Last year I wrote a couple of posts about what I’d learned so far about being a freelance writer. As expected, the one where I listed my faults got more traffic than the one where I paraded my triumphs (perhaps my “I’m a klutz” personal branding thing is proving a little too successful). But it was a fun exercise, and it … Read More
Storytelling – A Beginner’s Guide #3: How To Start A Story
Read the title? Good. Let’s start a story.
Where The Shadows Lie: 3 Fantasy Authors For Fans Of “A Game Of Thrones”
So, HBO’s Game of Thrones… Politics, sex, treachery, violence, more sex, more politics, urinating off the edge of the world, intrigue, betrayal, Sean Bean dead yet again, yet more sex, and then a lovely sexual torture scene to round things off. (Look, are you sure there was this much sex in A Game Of Thrones, because…? Well, yeah).
How To Fill Your Kindle (& Other Gadgets) For Free – *Updated*
Disclaimer: this post is about finding free books for Kindle – legally – of which there are shedloads (seriously, scroll downwards).
50 Amazingly Achievable Things To Do Before You Die
I’m tired of reading about difficult, expensive, time-consuming things I “have to do before I die“. And I’m betting you are too. So why not try my Amazingly Achievable Things To Do Before You Die list instead? Let me know how you score. (Especially if it’s under 50%).