Journal

I am broadly intolerant of advice which aims at the best practice of creativity. By this I mean what to write. There’s how to write, and that’s interesting. That can be approached through things to avoid, but I’d say the place to start would be your workspace. A simple thing, but you may find that… Read More »Creative Ergonomics: Make Your Desk Nice

There’s something to be said for reading at gunpoint. Try not to join a book club that employs live rounds, but the particular strain of weaponised obligation and peer pressure that any decent club can afford is, in all honesty, as indispensable for text-based creativity as the ripcord on the parachute.  You won’t want to… Read More »Book Club: Reading for Talking

Godzilla is big. Godzilla is too big. No matter the design, backstory, setting, the only consistent element must be that this monster is too big for wherever he is, and wherever he is pays the consequence of being too small. This is the story: the big thing is too big for the small things. It’s… Read More »Godzilla: Scale and Scope