by Neil | Sep 12, 2010 | Personal, Travel
This was written a week ago but access to the internet has been intermittent. When last seen I was chilling out in Hong Kong airport, en route to Sydney. I’m in Sydney now, having spent all Sunday with my sister and now being safely ensconced in a decent hotel to...
by Neil | Sep 4, 2010 | Personal, Travel
I’m in Hong Kong. For an hour. The sun has just gone down and the hills are coming alive with neon like nesting firebugs. I like Hong Kong. I was here three years ago, experiencing the weird Chinese/British fusion that is peculiar to this place and having...
by Neil | Aug 31, 2010 | Personal
It was back to work with a bump today after a nice long weekend (in the UK there’s always a bank holiday the last weekend in August). I’m on the final few days before I head round the far side of the world to see my sister and so I’m frantically...
by Neil | Aug 29, 2010 | Brain Food, Video
I posted this on twitter a while back. In case you don’t follow me, and because it’s easier to find again here, I decided to post it. John Cleese on creativity: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGt3-fxOvug]
by Neil | Aug 28, 2010 | Personal, Writing
I’m about 25k into my next novel, I expect the first draft to come in around 140k*. It’s taken me about a month to get this far, for someone who was banging out whole first drafts in 8 weeks** only a year or two ago this is kind of appalling. You know how...
