A Unified Field Theory of Story
Absorbed reading, whether of romance novellettes or literary classics is essentially a right-hemisphere dominated, trance inducing experience, in which we…
Tag: creativity
Jump for your love!
Many of the posts I write start as mental earworms – either a piece of music, or an idea, or…
The Year of AI: the Good, the Bad & the Ugly
In 2015, I had a subscription with Reader’s Digest that my mum had got me for a birthday present, and…
Expressing Yourself as You Get Older
How do you express yourself as you get older? When you are in your forties, you are beginning to look…
IN PRAISE OF CREATIVE PEOPLE
One of the things I like now most in my life, as a forty-something man, is having creative friends. It…
Darkness and the shadow self
People often conflate ideas of darkness, shadows and horror, with ‘evil’. But something that is ‘dark and shadowy’ is not…
Craving excitement!
I am always waiting for something to happen. I notice this a lot as I get older; maybe my life…
Don’t rest on your laurels: Secrets of a creative life
Having a talent is one thing; but that’s never enough to succeed in the long term at something. You have…
A life’s work
I know for a fact that writing will help me get over some of my problems; because I already feel…