July 27th 2020 Today I finished watching Michaela Coel’s I May Destroy You. It’s a remarkable, intelligent, thought-provoking piece of television that, at the outset, is about the sexual assault of a young London-based writer called Arabella. The primary story … Continue reading Destroy
23rd June 2020 Today marks two thousand days of consecutive blog posts. On January 1st 2015 I made the decision to start posting a blog every day. Two thousand days later, and I’m still going. Full disclosure: I had one … Continue reading Twothousand
February 16th 2020 Today I finished reading Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist. It’s a book that I bought four hours ago, in a tiny bookstore called Petronella’s in the lakeside village of Tekapo, on New Zealand’s South Island. I needed a … Continue reading Alchemist
January 15th 2020 Today I read a book cover to cover in a single session for the first time in… well, a long time. I mean literally, I picked it up and didn’t put it down until I’d finished it. … Continue reading Marlin
January 1st 2020 Todayis five years since I started this daily blog. Congrats everyone, we made it. On all but one day of the last five years I’ve written a blog post detailing what happened on that particular day. Sometimes the blog posts happen past midnight, so you could say that they no longer count for ‘that day’, but I make the rules so shut up. As long as I do one by the time I go to sleep that ‘day’, then it counts. And only once have I missed that. I didn’t even have a particularly good reason for … Continue reading Focus
November 20th 2019 Today a work friend told me that she’d just finished reading my book, and it prompted me to log in to my Kindle Direct Publishing account for the first time in six months. Imagine my surprised when … Continue reading Profit
July 1st 2019 Today, shit, is it July already? I guess so. That’s what the date says, and that is how the linear progression of time works so I guess there’s no reason that it wouldn’t be July already. July … Continue reading Mundane
April 18th 2019 Today my friend’s Mum posted a Facebook status saying she was looking forward to reading my novel over the Easter weekend. That was weird to me, but awesome. He’d bought my book to A) support me, and … Continue reading Backed
March 27th 2019 Today I sold the 20th copy of my novel. That’s about 17 more copies than I expected I’d sell, so I’m pretty happy with that. I haven’t been incessantly checking my Amazon Bookshelf reports as often as … Continue reading Copy
March 21st 2019 Today I marketed my novel in the way that I feel most comfortable with: by spamming my Instagram story. The beauty of an Instagram story is that in 24 hours everything I put up there will disappear. … Continue reading Marketed
