Motivation
“Motivation is a theoretical construct used to explain behaviour” I’m a big guy, I wasn’t always like this it started with getting with my wife and slowly crept up on me. I know the saying goes I woke up one day and I was fat, people say how can that happen. You must have seen…
Challenge = Fail!
Well obviously the “August” challenge is out of the window, from the beginning I didn’t stick to it like the last time. I may have to try again another month? Problem is I am getting ever closer to the day I start back at Uni for my final year, which is going to be really…
6th June 2017 – My Procrastination
After the last couple of posts I have been trying to think on why I Procrastinate so much and it’s not because I don’t want to write, I want more than anything to see my books in the local Waterstones next to my favourite authors. To be able to leave work and write full time…
Psychology
I want to talk about psychology, don’t worry I am not going to go into some deep technical essay on the mind and how it works in this crazy world. I am more going to talk about my own mind and how frustrating it is. The enemy within, my procrastination! It’s a hard one to…
Hello there
It’s been nearly two months, I thought I was at a place of regular writing but that hasn’t been the case. Camp Nano was a bust, I didn’t do much at all for it. I was chosen to be on a jury for the British Fantasy Society award, Best Anthology. So I have been reading…
British Fantasy Society – Writing Retreat
Each year the BFS holds a writing retreat at Gladstones Library and as it’s for a limited number you have to apply and then names are drawn out of a hat. I applied for last year’s retreat but did not manage to get a place. When I applied for this year I was so glad…
Uni at last
So, i`m sat in the cafe in the student union building. Starting my first day back, I finished a HND in 2006 and have just came back to do the last two years of the Bsc Honours degree In Computing. I think in an effort to get me writing I am going to do some…
4th June 2017 – Writers Group
For a long time I have tried joining writers groups on FB and looked for years for something local to me. I have tried a couple and either not felt comfortable or the more common theme is groups that start then peter out very quickly. Joining a group for NaNo years ago has netted a…
Geek
Today I let the inner Geek out… I attended my first convention, it’s not that I didn’t want to go before now. It’s just that they are all too far away or too expensive. I got a ticket for Newcastle Film & Comic-con went with a friend yesterday and had a brilliant time. The venue wasn’t very…