I'm a prolific collector of hobbies. They're largely all creative in some instance; I've played guitar since I was a teenager, and written fiction for as long as I can remember. From those I've learnt music production, created a hyperlocal news site,
During my working hiatus I’m trying to return to some of the skills that dwindled a little over my career, namely writing fiction and making music. As part of this, I’m fascinated by different peoples process in how they create (you’ll note I don’t use ‘creative
Day two of my experiment to implement a new routine of trying to write 250 words per day. The house was old when we originally moved in; not generationally old, like the kind of grandiose manor house that comes to mind when people tell you about these things; no delusions
Day one of my routine of trying to write 250 words per day. I can trace the lineage of my fear back through the years, a thin oxblood thread that neatly bisects my teenage years, back to a dreary weekend at the end of October 1986. Trick or treaters weren’
Over the years my fiction writing has suffered from a faltering, stop-start development process. I've taken a couple of classes here and there online, and joined a few workshops, but there's always something that stops me from working on anything. The feeling of potential failure -
Episode 3 changed my view as a straight man. by u/akgamestar in ThelastofusHBOseries I'm particularly taken with HBO's take on The Last of Us, a game series that takes the standard zombie apocalypse and, rather than choosing that vehicle to deliver the usual gory gun