Thinking aloud helped massively this last year, mainly thanks to making this podcast! I never thought I'd enjoy it. I never know what I'm thinking untiil it tumbles outta my mouth, threads back through my ears and then written with the hand.

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I have to constantly trick my brain back into beginner mode. As soon as I think I'm an 'expert' on a particular way of writing, my writing is dead on the page.

My new book: WORKING NINE LIVES

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This week I read a few poems from my book and talk about a quote from Cormac McCarthy that was in the back of my mind while I wrote it.

My new book: WORKING NINE LIVES

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This week feels like a bit of a diary entry (recently they sorta have been) but here I waffle-reflect on finishing a book and searching and planting the seeds for a new idea to begin.

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Forks in the road towards a weird career in the arts.

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A little blah di da reflection on writing without an audience for 30 years.

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Sometimes I'll write stuff purely on 'cleverness' and it will lack something. It feels like I've sold out to myself. But sometimes I have to write these hollow pieces to break through to the real stuff.

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Talking about David Chase from the Sopranos, David Lynch, and not giving a shit as aid to creative breakthroughs.

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I thought I'd document the writing process of one of my videos I shared recently on TikTok and Instagram "Envy disguised as moral highground". Also there's a little bit I learned on writer's rooms (from the Sopranos showrunner, David Chase) at the end.

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Walking to the supermarket (excuse the clicking of the leaves I'm walking on) and some thoughts on the time of the year between Christmas and New Years.

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