This week I have been working on building a daily writing and reading habit. It’s odd to have to work on this when it once came so easily to me, used to be you’d never see me without a book in my hands, even while walking down the street sometimes. I’d have to keep looking up so I wouldn’t walk into somebody, or a lamppost or a bin or something. But it’s been over a decade since I stopped, and I’m very out of practice. I blame education and social media for my declining inter

Our parents once told us that our youth was going to be the best time of our lives. This turned out to be irresponsibly untrue. We then spent years getting conditioned into believing that our 20s was supposed to be this brilliant coming-of-age, liberating fun-filled time, enjoying university, travelling, having experiences, falling in love, building our career… But adulthood did not turn out to resemble an episode of FRIENDS. Nor did it resemble Sex and The City, New Girl, Th

I've been working on a story since COVID, about an antisocial antivillain protagonist, and its coming along quite well! Currently its something of an urban-fantasy/sci-fantasy adventure, with a precocious pre-teen making trouble for my grumpy main character. Just wait until his ex comes back, he's going to absolutely lose it.