Carry a Notebook

Carry a Notebook

Inspiration often hits me at the most awkward times… like in the shower or when I am out for a run. Times when it is next to impossible to record those thoughts and ideas save repeating them over and over and over until they are burned deep into my memory.Which is...
Bad Writing is Good Too

Bad Writing is Good Too

Every creative industry has its myths. Music has its rock n roll myths, art has its, as does movie making and dancing. In writing, there is this idea that some people can just write well and never write anything bad. This myth also holds that if you can’t get it out...
The 5 Big Myths of Self Employment

The 5 Big Myths of Self Employment

There are plenty of things that people who DO NOT work for themselves believe about the self-employed life. Way too many for one piece. So instead, I have chosen to focus on the ones I encounter the most, which I find the most annoying. 1) You work less Somehow just...
Balls in Hand

Balls in Hand

For a while there, readers of this blog might have thought that the novel JOHANNESBURG was simply never going to be finished. Well, I have good news and I have bad news! The good news is that I am not currently working on it. The bad news is that it is only as...
Happy Anniversary

Happy Anniversary

One year ago today, at about 8pm, I stepped aboard an Emirates flight to Dubai, en route to England and I have no idea what else. All I had was a few hundred English pounds, 17kg’s of luggage and a job waiting in a pub…. Well, maybe waiting, needed to crack the...