What We Have Learned
In which we learn what we have learned from the experience – and failure – of our first crowd funding campaign. And discover there may be a Plan B.
At the Quill
At the Quill: About creative writing in my experience and practice. Also posts about independent authorship and self-publishing. Read Creative Writing and Independent Authorship for more details or scroll down.
Half full or half empty?
A meditation on the question: Are you a half full or a half empty kinda guy? Why it’s not so easy to answer. Includes a digression on Bulgarian measures.
The state of the art, or What I did on my hols
The state of the art of storytelling in Britain today- snapshots from my recent visit catching-up with my family in Northamptonshire.
Gone live! My crowdfunding campaign.
The crowd funding campaign to publish My Gothenburg Days went live this morning and I have difficulty concentrating on anything else.
The stories we tell
A reflection on the art of telling stories, and the compulsion to tell them, and how some stories are more divorced from reality than others.
My radio days (part 1)
Memoir of the first of my radio days, recording at gunpoint in a studio in Bulgaria. (OK, not really recording at gunpoint. But kind of!)
Adventures in Crowd Funding My GBG Days
Adventures in Crowd Funding, the genesis of my projected e-book, plus problems with Swedish, and crowdfunding My Gothenburg Days.
Not singing or winning so much
Not singing or winning so much. Lots of ups and downs lately and I’m feeling depressed so here’s a poem or lyric based on “Tubthumper” by Chumbawamba.
Video tips
Not “7 Steps to a Great Promo Video”. Some of the pitfalls of filming your own promotional video and some tips to overcome them.
Websites, videos, printers and planning
Deep in the planning and preparation stage of the crowd funding campaign for My Gothenburg Days / Dagar i mitt Götborg – lots done, lots to do.