Writing

Why You Need to Be Disorganised to Be Creative

Photo by Mami I ruffled a few feathers over on Business of Design Online when I wrote about Why You…

17 years ago

What Writer’s Block and Stage Fright Have In Common

Photo by pascalgenest Photo by givepeasachance From the outside, the writer pottering around the house while the laptop gathers dust,…

17 years ago

6 Tips for Dealing with Feedback on Your Creative Work

There's an art to listening to criticism or praise of your work without getting carried away by elation or despair…

17 years ago

What Seamus Heaney Taught Me About Giving Feedback

About 15 years ago I was lucky enough to have a one-to-one writing tutorial with the poet Seamus Heaney. This…

17 years ago

Less Is More

Small but perfectly-formed thanks to Tim Siedell for introducing me to A Brief Message - a new blog about graphic…

17 years ago

Creative Links – 16 February 2007

Introducing the new, slimmed-down, weekly(ish) version of Creative Links... Hats off to A Consuming Experience for bringing to my attention…

18 years ago

Creative Links – January

OK I might have made a mistake by promising to do Creative Links on a monthly basis - there are…

18 years ago

New Year’s Resolution No.2 – Write More Poetry

Following on from my first New Year's Resolution, here's my second one. Once I've posted my resolutions, I'll be writing…

18 years ago

Writers on Writers’ Block

If you've ever suffered from writer's block you'll find some inspiration and useful tips on National Public Radio's Novel Ideas…

18 years ago

Creative Synaesthesia – If You See What I’m Saying

I discovered the Reactable, a new music-making interface, via City of Sound and Peter Marsh. Why do I find this…

18 years ago