“I shall suppose … that some malicious demon of the utmost power and cunning has employed all his energies in order to deceive me. I shall think that the sky, the air, the earth, colours, shapes, sounds and all external…

So a couple of my writer buds on Twitter posed a bit of question to the group over the last week. The essence of the question that came up was: “How do you keep writing when people think you’re 100%…

Picture this… You sit down to write your novel. You crack your knuckles, open that blank document, and then your brain immediately starts its greatest hits collection of self doubt. “This is going to take three months. Maybe six. Maybe…

‘Tis my Birthday. I’ve survived another year. As I’ve gotten older I just have a grateful appreciation to still be here on this earth. Today has been a day of laziness. I waited for a few books to arrive. A…

Been binge watching the Fallout series and there’s this scene that made me pause mid bite of my sandwich. I mean it was a damn good sandwich and I rarely stop when I get going… Ella Purnell’s character Lucy. This…

Sometimes the best productivity hacks come from pure accident and desperation. Just over 12 months ago, I did something spectacularly stupid. Closed my MacBook lid down on the charger cable. You know that satisfying click when the laptop shuts? Yeah,…

Something was definitely in the water this morning. I wake up, grab my coffee, make the classic mistake of checking Facebook while my brain’s still soft and undefended. Big fucking error. It’s like I stepped into some alternate dimension where…

As promised. I’ve always said I’m going to do some more quick audio snippets. So here’s the next short little ramble. It’s more about my process and how you can use it too if you’re interested. Go here if you…

John Kennedy Toole put a bullet in his brain in 1969. Thought his manuscript was garbage. Thought the world didn’t want to hear about Ignatius J. Reilly… This sweating, farting, medieval philosophy obsessed manchild who rails against modern society from…

I came across this quote and if you let it. It might slap you across the face and give you a different way of looking at things… “What a beautiful gift it is to hit rock bottom. To be stripped…

This is basically about how I accidentally proved headlines matter more than everything else. Which strangely also includes audio. So yesterday I screwed up so spectacularly that I accidentally proved the most important copywriting principle of all time. So I’m…

It’s rare that I get tonnes of questions but someone asked me today how I show up every single day without caring what people think about my content. Now it’s not like it’s some kind of superpower. It’s definitely not…

You are a detective. Your mission is to document and observe the world around you. As if you’ve never seen it before. Take notes. Collect things you find on your travels. Document findings. Notice patterns. Copy. Trace. Make rubbings… Focus…

That beautiful, demented puppet master actually fucking did it. The new Superman movie? Its felt like a religious experience. I mean it was basically Metropolis or whatever you want to call it getting turned into abstract art. Side note: Why…

Pssst… Hey you. Yeah, you. Sitting there with your coffee or your bourbon or your coffee with bourbon (no judgment, we’ve all been there) Let me tell you a story about how I became the world’s most expensive idiot for…

One thing I’ve become addicted to over the years is collecting domain names. Not to flip them. Just to collect them for potential projects in the future. Unfortunately today has been a very expensive lesson in not setting auto-renew on…

This isn’t going to be a massively long email. I’m just giving a shoutout to the man whose book dragged me out of the darkest place I’ve ever gone to. I made it out and hey, life is not too…

You need rules. Real rules. The kind that make people uncomfortable. The kind that separate the wheat from the chaff and leave the chaff standing outside in the cold wondering what the hell just happened. Let me tell you about…

Whatever happens around you. Don’t take it personally. Nothing other people do is because of you. Deeply… It’ because of themselves. Situations might feel so personal. It honestly has nothing to do with you. What they say, what they do,…

My good pal Seneca once penned this… (I’ve studied a lot of his work) “Most human beings, Paulinas,* complain about the meanness of nature, because we are born for a brief span of life, and then because this spell of…

Your brain is a lying liar that lies… So I’m not gonna pretend that I know everything but there are some common things floating about the interwebs right now and there’s a little heaviness about which is not good. Life…

…but your writing can still turn people on. Let’s talk about sex for a minute. And before you get all weird about it… No, I’m not suggesting you strip down and start gyrating at your laptop camera or whatever. Most…

And most of you are burning the shit out of it every single day. You don’t just throw a frozen hunk of meat onto a screaming hot pan and pray to the beef gods. That’s how you get leather. Sad,…

The most magnetic thing on earth is liking your own energy. Or what the kids say nowadays; “Vibe” I’ll stick to energy though because it’s a lot deeper than that. Swami Vivekananda had similar notions in his teachings. That were…

Quick confession… I’m about to disappear into Battlefield 6. Like, gone gone. Pulled under by the riptide gone. The kind of gone where the couch grows teeth and the controller fuses to my palms and the night blinks and suddenly…

Every now and then. Well… Every couple of months I treat myself to a filthy Mcdonald’s… Yes yes I know I shouldn’t eat that garbage but come on. I’ve been exclusively eating steak and eggs for ages now. So I’m…

It’s been a little while since I’ve done one of these audiotape type things. Some call it a podcast, some call it a random voice note. I’ll go with voice note cause I like sending them. Don’t worry It’s not…

My buddy called me last night. Said something that stuck. “Just read your stuff out loud. Record it. Put it on YouTube.” I laughed. Told him I sound like a dying walrus having an existential crisis. He said that’s the…

Nobody talks about how boring consistency is. For weeks now, I’ve been eating steak and eggs. Same meal. Over and over. I’m so bored I could cry. Although it’s working… I’m not perfect. Maybe 7 out of 10 meals are…

We are not machines. We have souls. We need little bits of music and connections and sunsets with laughter. Those little pockets of joy… …we need to prioritise that. Your life depends on it. Life is not meant to be…