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How To Have Ideas: Six Steps To Your Personal ‘Eureka’ Moment

The question of how to have ideas isn’t just for people working in explicitly creative roles: if you’ve got a job, any job, sooner or later someone will expect you to think stuff up. When I was at school doing my ‘A’ levels, I worked as a hospital cleaner. My manager was always asking me […]

Commonplace Books: A 5-Minute Introduction

So what is a commonplace book? Well, it’s kind of like the bullet journal’s much less hyped distant cousin. It’s not a productivity tool, more of a writing-based scrapbook. A place to collect the wit and wisdom that you’d usually stumble across and think, ‘that’s great, I must make a note of that’ only to […]

Brilliant Books to Read if You Want to be a Better Writer

You want to be a better writer. But there are masses of books about writing and creativity out there. (A quick search on Amazon.co.uk shows over half a million results for books on writing, and over 30,000 on creativity.) Some are motivating, helpful and wise, and others are long-winded, dreary and humour-free. So here are […]

The Writing Process: Messy, Long-Winded and Repetitive. When You Do It Right, That Is

So, for a while now you’ve been hearing me bang on about why you should view writing as a process. And I bet you’ve been wondering (at least some of … [Read More...] about The Writing Process: Messy, Long-Winded and Repetitive. When You Do It Right, That Is

My Year with WordPress. Part 1: The Very Beginning

Of course you've heard the buzz about WordPress, but what is it, exactly, and what can it do for you? Read on, Macduff. Why Did I Choose … [Read More...] about My Year with WordPress. Part 1: The Very Beginning

Walking IS Thinking: The Real Reason Walk to Work Week Probably Improved Your Performance

Today, like most days, I have a series of tight deadlines. You probably do, too, so you’re either reading this blog to get help or as a displacement … [Read More...] about Walking IS Thinking: The Real Reason Walk to Work Week Probably Improved Your Performance

The differences between spoken and written English (and what they mean for speechwriting)

Steven Pinker's an American experimental psychologist who writes about language, mind and human nature. In The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person’s … [Read More...] about The differences between spoken and written English (and what they mean for speechwriting)

This week’s word is inspired by my fellow writer Charlotte Frost, whose latest work in progress is provisionally entitled Death, Debt and Debentures. … [Read More...] about Word of the Week: Debenture

Why you should ditch Word and Google docs and give Airstory a try instead

Word is everywhere, but that doesn't necessarily mean it's any good. These are a few things that give me The Rage about it: the help function's … [Read More...] about Why you should ditch Word and Google docs and give Airstory a try instead

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