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This Week I Quit Evernote
Once an essential tool in my work Evernote increasingly became a confusing headache. This once great application seems...
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
In amongst all the "fake news" there's been some real and powerful stories about gender and power. This...
It’s a familiar feeling. Your hands run over the keys, unable to find their place. You stare at a...
It’s a problem that that troubles every blogger at some stage; how long should a blogpost be? It doesn’t...
It was a lot of fun being a film critic, running a film review podcast and website, but the...
One of my favourite magazines has published its final edition. Thank you and goodbye to Just Jazz Guitar Magazine....
I spent a few months working with a writing coach and this is what I learnt.