It's 1am here as I'm writing this blog post. I've done 12 (count em) articles today (work, which I can't not do), tried to settle into my dissertation and failed miserably, skipped genning up a new character for my game, because I was failing miserably at my diss, got breifly excited because my column went up today on ProudlionComics then sunk back into the doldrums of … [Read more...] about It’s oh so quiet….
Archives for March 2011
How I handle todo lists
I haven’t forgotten you
I know, I know, I've been really REALLY bad at keeping up lately. It's not actually that I'm bad at keeping up - it's more that between a very sick small child (she's nine, but she turns into about a three year old when she's sick - she has emotional and behavioral problems), first draft of my dissertation, end of year taxes, and a copy writing company that's only ever quiet … [Read more...] about I haven’t forgotten you
Kai, the archaeologist of fiction
Image by Hembo Pagi via Flickr I got asked a couple of days ago if I wrote for pleasure or profit. If you think about it, it’s a pretty loaded question. And I agreed to answer, but in my own time. I’ve come to realise over the last few days, months, years of my life (I’ve been writing for nearly 30 years), that the truth of the matter is I write stories … [Read more...] about Kai, the archaeologist of fiction
Mental health and self sabotage
One of the things I’ve noticed about working with people in the mental health community is that most of us are instantly tolerant of the mistakes of others ‘like us’. There’s a lot of outpouring of support, for example, for Charlie Sheen. One of the critical problems with this though is that now, anything we talk about to do with bipolar disorder or … [Read more...] about Mental health and self sabotage