A really short blog post today just to answer the question. I hope I am not too old, as Wednesday was the day when I released my first full length album through bandcamp. It’s a part of the Blue project which I have written about here before. If you are interested to learn more, you … Read more
I said to him, “It’s all about the techniques that were common in Renaissance time, when people like Leonardo da Vinci weren’t artists or scientists. They showed a great appetite for all learning and understood the way these things all connected together, or could connect as a process of discovery.” It was one of those great … Read more
One big unsustainable move Is all it takes to topple the dictator Repeal all laws that have been passed And repel the revolution before it takes hold Empty vessels make the loudest noise When struck with a stick People in glass houses should not throw Their voices even when they think They know the answer … Read more
Can a year be a specific colour? Is this some sort of synaesthetic experiment? Well, not exactly. I have written several posts about BlueWater Books and also about the new creative project “Blue: experiments in sound”. So, the nearest I get to a resolution for the new year is to say that this is the … Read more
I am warming up to produce new blog posts. Since the Writing Marathon I have gone quiet on this blog. Partly I have been massively distracted preparing for my wedding (yay!) and I have been really busy with the day job! It’s also probably true that the writing of some 12,000 words in 3 days … Read more
I did it! Three days of writing and I have completed a manuscript. At the start of the challenge I had 5,000 words and some ideas for what else I could write about. Over the last three days I came up with a title (Believing in What we Do), turned those ideas into a set … Read more
It’s Monday morning and day three of the writing marathon. Let’s begin with some quick numbers. I have written 8,181 words including three blog posts and three chapters of the book I am working on. I have also written three poems. That’s pretty sustained! I didn’t write into the evening on either Saturday or Sunday. … Read more
As promised, here is another blog post to describe the progress I am making with my 3 day writing marathon. In this post I will give a quick update on how the process has gone, then set out the music playlist I have been using, and what progress I have made with the goals I … Read more
It’s a Saturday morning and I am at the beginning of a 3-day writing marathon. I wrote about this concept in an earlier post. This weekend is the first chance I have to put it into practise. I thought it would be useful to capture the process in real-time and see how it goes. Apologies … Read more
If you have been reading this blog for a while you may already know that I set up a press about 10 years ago and produced a couple of booklets by hand with a small print run of 100 copies (see here for a bit more on this). I have always intended to return to this … Read more