We want to write, but we don’t want to write. How can that be? — Think of who you are in any given moment. Who are you when you are with your kids? Your friends? Your partner? Your lover? What kind of person are you when you are with your parents? Your work colleagues? Fellow writers? Chances are you exhibit different personality traits and behave…

Whatever Your Mind Can Conceive And Believe, It Can Achieve - Napoleon Hill — This quote from Napoleon Hill’s 1937 book, Think & Grow Rich, is often used to promote the power of positive thinking. But there’s a less explored and usually ignored flip-side. Let me ask you a question: Do you see yourself as a procrastinator? Why is that? Do you put off…

We are all story junkies, looking for our next fix. — Remember when we were kids and we’d read by flashlight under the covers? Such a cliche, but so true. When hours would speed by in moments as we devoured page after page after page? Everyone loves a good story; whether it’s gossip around the office water cooler, down the pub…

We’d Have Cabbages For Brains — Easy story ideas are as cheap as chips. We have hundreds every day that flit in and out of our heads like a baby’s breath. The easy stories anyone can tell. It’s the difficult ones that tend to stick around. Get under your skin and fester; an itch that once…

Why you need a vision. — At some point, as you’re slogging away in the name of fame, money, love, freedom, you will ask yourself is this all worth it? It can be difficult maintaining the belief that we can write. …

Do You Suffer Writer’s Block? Really? — Let’s get this straight, right from the get-go. Not knowing what to write is not a sign of failure. Nor is it a lack of talent or motivation. What it is is this: A perfectly normal part of the creative process. I don’t like to give negative things titles, because…

The Travesty Of Our Repressed Emotions — During her many decades of work, highly acclaimed psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross came to believe that every human emotion could be boiled down to being either a manifestation of love or a manifestation of fear. Understanding the significance this has on the reasons we make excuses as to why we cannot…

What Is It About The British & The Weather? — Weather warnings to stay indoors! Possible hosepipe bans. Then it rains and we wonder what all the fuss was about. The UK has only had Christmas snow four times in the last 51 years, but that hasn’t kept people from talking about it. Boy, do us brits love to talk…

Your fear of being judged by others could be sabotaging your writing — One of the strangest things I find about being a writer is our inability to sometimes say what we really mean. Instead we fudge the issue for fear of being humiliated or embarrassed. Ridiculed or quite possibly ostracised. …