Recently, YouTube’s algorithm kindly suggested a 1994 documentary on selection for officer training in the Royal Marines! It wouldn’t have been my first pick, but there you go. My first shock was the 1990s, the coolest decade ever, looking like a dim, distant far off world, but there you go. The next shock was the … Continue reading Learning from the 90s
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(Huge) Marketing Trouble [Hard Truths for Writers]
I’m in (huge) marketing trouble and for the first time I really don’t know what to do! Or maybe that’s the problem, maybe this is the first time I’ve realised that I don’t really know what to do. Anyhow here are some of the problems that have brought me to this point. Lastly firstly I … Continue reading (Huge) Marketing Trouble [Hard Truths for Writers]
Yes – I can say no.
How often do you say “no” to things that would interfere with your goals? Yes I can say no, because I’ve learnt to say no, bitter experience has been my teacher. I’m happy to say yes to the time limited, the specific, the clearly defined. I used to believe saying no, or placing limits, was … Continue reading Yes – I can say no.
The Art of Comedy
…the refinement process for public performance is remarkable! The comedian comes up with an idea that might work as a joke, so they think it through and write it down, they tell it to the four walls, they note the changes and do it again, repeatedly, then and only then is it performed to a tiny audience at an obscure venue, and in the full knowledge this must be repeated over and over again, constantly refining, constantly changing, constantly adapting, constantly cutting and dissecting, and constantly being prepared to drop it altogether!
Learning from losing
In January I managed to achieve a big win! But February had other ideas, it reminded me of life’s realities, by kindly handing me a huge loss! In January I set a lowish bar, and straddled it easily. So in February I assumed, that with equal ease, I would stroke the next hard thing to … Continue reading Learning from losing
14 days and 6746 words.
I love numbers, connections and patterns. So today after two weeks I am where I should be in one month. I’d better explain that last sentence. As my New Year’s resolution I decided to write 200 words each day through January. This was towards a story I promised to write for my children in the … Continue reading 14 days and 6746 words.
Facile Caverns – Peep Frae Your Mind
Peep Frae Your Mind "Apprehensive trepidations go hand in hand with thy privations." Facile Cavern, Peep Frae Your Mind. https://amazon.co.uk/Peep-Frae-Your-Robert-Campbell/dp/B0BN62H8P3… #Poety #Quote #Quotes #PeepFraeYourMind #FacileCaverns #Graphic
If you quit, falter or stop…
“if you quit, if you falter, if you stop, all the pain will be for nothing.”
Starting the year well
New Year New Opportunities! The 1st of January is just another day, a turn of the calendars page, and in this electronic age it’s not even that! But none the less it does give us the opportunity to re-set or re-focus. It is more mental than actual, but in this case a mental change is … Continue reading Starting the year well
F Fae – A Commentary on Educational underachievement (video)
https://youtu.be/03VLRr1UoNQ Here’s a short video on my poem F Fae. The poem deals with the reality and consequences of educational underachievement. I also mixed the music. Over the last while I’ve been trying to add spoken work to EDM. The original poems was 14 verses long, but through the advice of legendary record producer Rick … Continue reading F Fae – A Commentary on Educational underachievement (video)
Climbing Mountains (is the easy bit) – Hard Truths For Writers
Mountaineer - image from WordPress It’s like climbing a mountain; all alone and totally untrained. You learn as you go; you work out what to do; you learn how to use the equipment. Then you wing it; you get lucky; you take hard routes, easy routes, bizarre routes. Eventually you traverse the final assent, you … Continue reading Climbing Mountains (is the easy bit) – Hard Truths For Writers
George and the Elephant (promo video)
https://youtu.be/l5OiUDPtntE Here’s a short video about George and the Elephant, you can read more about the book here or you can buy it here
Captain Timmy has set sale!
Okay, sorry about the dreadful pun in the title, I thought it was good, I’m excited, it’s early in the morning! But whatever the title of the post, finally Captain Timmy and the Bobbing Barrel is live and for sale.
Spring Is Now
Spring is far more than the arbitrary turn of a calendar’s page. It is mindset. It is flow. It is process. It is seasonality. It is ceasing to think of then, as if now has no bearing upon it.
A 7 year old, COVID-19, PIMS and ICU For Christmas.
To ad-lib “COVID-19 is very dangerous”. Well COVID-19 isn’t very dangerous for everyone but can be very dangerous for some people! Covid-19 went round our house, I had a bit of a temperature and was tired for a while. Without a positive PCR result, I’m not sure we would have noticed that our youngest child … Continue reading A 7 year old, COVID-19, PIMS and ICU For Christmas.
Bugs and Books Launches (29/11/21)
I’ve had Covid, it wasn’t really that bad, I was only at mild flu level. But the tiredness and fatigue was unreal. The bigger problem was it being in the house for a wee bit over three weeks. That was, and for a few more days is a problem. Normally I’m very organised, active and … Continue reading Bugs and Books Launches (29/11/21)
Prison or Art College
I have written this premeditatedly, you know beforehand, that’s not a good thing to do, to premeditate is to imagine, it is to imagine what will have happened, and you don’t know what’s going to happen. At least on election night politicians only have to write two speeches, one for winning and one for losing! … Continue reading Prison or Art College
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