Often times, when a person joins or starts a start-up as an entrepreneur, their life becomes rather chaotic. The impression is, that to compete with the big industries out there and make money, a person has to spend every waking moment working. And, as the case may be, some moments that would normally be dedicated […]
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International Women’s Day
If you didn’t know, yesterday was International Women’s Day. Now, in the past, I’ve never really been all that into the feminist movements. Despite what everyone says, it always feels like people are trying to promote women above men, not promoting gender equality. That’s not true for everybody, but for most of the people I’ve […]
Something About A Saturday
The sun is shining. The weather is good (especially considering its barely March). My laundry is still in the sorting-itself-out stage. I should be getting ready to go wander around and soak up the sun. What am I doing instead? Writing. And getting ready to edit a video on writing. And then write some more. […]
Time for Wandering
Saturdays are normally my “catch up from the week and don’t bother with people” days. Occasionally, I will do nothing at all. But mostly, I just hang around and write or read. However! It is also spring here in Edinburgh and I have itchy feet. Or spring fever. Cabin fever? Pick your favourite and that’s […]
Plantsing? Plotser?
At the moment, I’m working on a rewrite of an urban fantasy piece I originally drafted about five years ago. Gosh, it seems like so long ago, now. Anyways, I’m about a third of the way through and have started feeling a bit… Let’s just say I’ve started to suffer from Sagging Middle Syndrome. Which […]
Um… Have a Poem?
As soon as I remembered to write today’s blog post, I started thinking of topics. And came up with nothing. Well, nothing interesting (because, honestly, who wants to hear about my breakfast debate and doing the dishes?). So have a poem. It’s not my poem. This is a poem by William Hughes Mearns entitled “Antagonish”: […]