Category: Non Fiction

Good news is hard to come by at the best of times. I have a recollection of typing it into Google once and getting a definition of it, rather than any actual good news. I studied journalism and good news isn’t anything…

I have been watching through the entire X-Files run. I even watched the movies, and the spin-off, The Lone Gun Men.I’ll pick up Millennium at some point as it ties in through a cameo from Lance Henrikson. I’ve been mostly impressed. Season…

I have read all of his books now. I completely missed them when he was alive. I find this kind of amazing. We both come from East Anglia, have similar interests in TV, music, and films, he wrote for Wire Magazine, and…

I feel in some ways like I’m late to the party in the same way that I was with Anthony Bourdain, but not exactly. I knew about Clive James from his TV shows that I watched with my dad back in the…

I have been writing more writing than writing about writing, so some things stopped being done for a while. I am watching a lot of documentaries and it kind of gets you into the headspace where you pull back from what you…

You do sometimes run out of things to say about writing. You do sometimes run out of things to write. What do you do then? You write about having nothing to write until something occurs to you. Turning up to do the…

Hit the ground running. Start out the year with a solid foundation of work, and a solid practice in place, and it gets easier to keep the ball rolling. I hate getting to the end of the year and feeling like I…

I am never sure how I feel about someone writing something that finds its foundations in the work of another. It can be pretty hard to avoid being derivative, because you often fail to understand the driving force behind the creation of…

Every year involves something of a re-tool and a re-think. You need to keep it fresh. Being an artist of any kind entails growth, and this is something I am always focused on. Sometimes it an be just giving yourself a new…

Intention without planning equals wishful thinking. Planning without action is busywork. Marry all three things up and you cooking. Sometimes, rolling along the creative line, you forget about the other things and you have all this great stuff you created and no…