Who are you writing for?
One of the challenges I’ve faced with writing over the years is understanding who it is I’m actually writing for. Is it for me, or is it for an audience? If it’s for an audience, what type of audience is … Read more …
Writing
I’ve been interviewed!
After we’d finished doing my interview of Barry (which you can read here at An interview with a Practical Buddhist), he decided that he’d like to interview me too. I was a bit wary of this at first, ’cause I … Read more …
What’s your shadow sign?
I saw a link on Facebook to an article called What’s your shadow sign, and followed it ’cause I was curious. I’m always curious about things that might provide greater insight into who I am and why. The article was … Read more …
The Scanner experiments
As I’ve written about before, I’m a Scanner personality type. It means that I’m always exploring new things that I’m interested in, while hoping that something lasts longer than a few months. Most things I explore don’t last very long at … Read more …
What do you like on this blog?
Maybe you can help me with some advice. This blog has been around for a long time, and some of you keep coming back. I think that’s fantstic. 🙂 But it makes me wonder – what do you like about … Read more …
Did you miss me?
One of my readers got in touch with me the other day to let me know that they were a bit worried. They had gotten used to waking up in the morning and getting an email with the latest blog … Read more …
Helping others and inspiring debate
A friend visited me tonight, who is also a reader of this blog. We had a good catch-up, which included talking about my blog posts. He mentioned that this blog is like my journal, a personal diary, which means it’s … Read more …
Don’t ever stop
Last night I sat up in bed at midnight and wrote 200 crappy words because I knew that I had to. I learned a long time ago that if you want to succeed at something, you need to keep at … Read more …
Get up and write!
It’s almost midnight and I’m writing this with a ‘pen’ on my phone while sitting up in bed in the dark so I don’t wake up my wife. I was laying in bed, thinking to myself that I really should … Read more …
The best years of my life
As I’ve been reading my blog posts from 1998 through to 2007 so far, one of the things that’s struck me is that they were about my life, the experiences that I’ve had, and the things that I’ve learned. For … Read more …
An update on the archiving
As I’m going through my old posts, one by one, all 1500 of them, I’m finding a LOT of posts that were written as articles. I’ve decided to take them and put them onto an Articles page, separating them by … Read more …
An archive of memories
I started work on changing the archive of my writing today. I’ve spent about 10 hours on it so far, and I’m probably only a third of the way through. What I’m doing is going through every single post and … Read more …
Delete everything
I recently decided to move old blog posts into the ‘old’ category if they were older than 1st January 2014. I haven’t even started yet, but it’s been on my mind as a task I must do. At the same … Read more …