Category Archives: Writing

Write a Sentence Every Day

As a writer, something that I’ve gotten into the habit of doing is writing at least one sentence every single day. Now, obviously, I work as a writer, I write this blog and I write my webcomic – I write … Continue reading

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Finger Puppet Show: The Story So Far

There are now over four hundred Finger Puppet Show comic strips and I’ve been writing it for almost five years. If you’ve only heard about it recently, you might find it hard to understand what’s really going on, or you … Continue reading

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A Shift in Tone

I was thinking today about how much this blog has changed over the years. Back when I first started, aside from the odd philosophical reflections, I mainly just use these blog posts to try and be funny. The vast majority … Continue reading

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A Creative Exercise in Empathy

Something which I like to use as a writing prompt and which I like to use to help broaden my understanding of other perspectives, is to try writing from contrary points of view to my own. You could either write … Continue reading

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Christmas Stories

A Christmas tradition which I have, but which seems to be fairly uncommon in my experience, is writing a Christmas story each year. Obviously, I am quite creative and so enjoy writing fiction recreationally and if you aren’t that kind … Continue reading

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Exercise Your Brain at the Gym

I like to try and go to the gym at least two or three times a week to try and help myself to stay healthy and to stay in shape. It’s also fairly fun, I think, especially when I go … Continue reading

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Getting Back on Track

I missed more blog updates in the past few weeks than I ever have in the five years + that I’ve been writing it. The reason for this was that I was working on a massive order of writing for … Continue reading

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The Problem With Long Term Blogging

I’ve been writing several posts a week for this blog for over five years now. I’ve told many anecdotes from my life, reviewed many books and video games and shared my thoughts on a number of topics. I don’t imagine … Continue reading

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Freelance Work

I’ve worked on and off as a freelance writer for the past couple of years. I love doing it because it’s the kind of work that gives me more creative freedom than any other. I guess it’s also the kind … Continue reading

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Writing Addiction

Since 2004, I have never gone through an extended period of time in which I didn’t write something. It was in that year that I started to write out regular short stories and before then I had created lots of … Continue reading

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