Writer’s Block, creative constipation, artist’s block – whatever you want to call it – is a big problem for writers, artists, musicians, and creative professionals. Some people say that ‘writer’s block’ doesn’t really exist – that you aren’t trying hard enough, don’t have a good routine, are quitting, etc. Others, including many suffering writers of… Continue Reading
Succeeding with Freelance Writing
I can’t lie: Writing is a tough industry to get into. It is, however, also one of the largest industries in the world, because everything you read, from newspapers to labels, has to be written by someone. Nine-point-five times out of ten, they were paid for it. With real money. I shit you not. It… Continue Reading
Into Darkness: SOPA/PIPA and Democracy
This website isn’t being blacked out during the SOPA/PIPA protests, because blacking it out would be inconsequential – it doesn’t get enough traffic to really make a point. The point it needs to make is this: SOPA/PIPA is another step towards corporate control of governments and populations, and it needs to stop. Now. SOPA, as… Continue Reading
Encounters with the Paranormal: Ghosts of War
One night, soon after getting my very first internet-connected computer, I was sitting up late on Altavista (anyone remember that?), surfing the Australian National War Memorial site, looking for family records. James Emanuel Callard was KIA on my birthday in 1917 – mowed down in Ypres on the 8th of June, 68 years before I… Continue Reading
Re-Birthday Celebration! Amazon Gift Card Giveaway.
On January 9th 2012 at 1:46pm Melbourne time, I was reborn. Months and months of intense inner work culminated in the great YES – the painful, brilliant and bittersweet experience of realizing that from this point on, I am completely in control of my own destiny. Today, I went and changed my name – the… Continue Reading