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Clichés And Thought Terminating Clichés
Thought-terminating clichés are seemingly harmless and commonly used words and phrases that act to limit or stop conversation, discussion,...
Thought-terminating clichés are seemingly harmless and commonly used words and phrases that act to limit or stop conversation, discussion,...
Readwise is a digital research tool that helps you organise highlights from your reading. I’ve been using Readwise and...
Kanban is a popular tool in design and software development. The authors of Personal Kanban suggest it can also...
Almost every day I sit down to write at my dining table. Like so many things about this year,...
The writing on this site is now organised into six new categories. Here’s a rundown on them, and why...
I’m not calling it a sabbatical. Too many people think a sabbatical is a holiday, something offered to folks...
Once an essential tool in my work Evernote increasingly became a confusing headache. This once great application seems...
Getting up at 5am and working before most people are awake is a popular piece of advice for a...
The saying is, there’s no such thing as a bad question. But there’s one question, one we’ve all...
The word toxic is everywhere. We use to describe all sorts of things we don't like, from bad relationships,...
Having self-published a non-fiction book I've decided next time I will work with a publisher instead. Here's why.
Authors and writing coaches consistently say first drafts don’t need to be perfect. Yet writers get stuck, trying to...
We accept – often grudgingly – that our work might need to be edited. But perhaps editing is more...
The release of Scrivener 3.0 coincided perfectly with the annual task of building a new blogging template for the...
Something small and personal from my Tokyo studio. Personal reflections on the last season of life with new...
The Japan Writers Conference, held over two days, brought together a diverse collection of authors, editors, poets and publishers