Exactly 100 days ago I wrote a blog. I had no intention of doing anything crazy with it, but by the end, I found I’d committed myself to blogging every day, with no end date. Not only that, but I’d somehow committed to running at least a mile every day too. (It’s all Seth Godin’s […]
Continue readingToday’s post is over at Birds on the Blog: http://birdsontheblog.co.uk/how-to-cheat-at-writing/ “If writing this book is important to you, you have to get creative about tricking yourself into doing it…”
Continue readingI remember as an Eng Lit undergrad hearing a lecturer dismiss Wordsworth airily as a poet who ‘lived too long and wrote too much.’ Bit harsh, I thought. Just because he didn’t die tragically like the James Deans of the day, Byron and Shelley. And yes, OK, some of Wordsworth’s stuff is pretty mediocre, but […]
Continue readingAlthough The Extraordinary Business Book Club is mostly about the business of business books – writing them, publishing them, putting them to work in the business – one of the most enjoyable side benefits is that with such a wide range of authors, we get to cover an incredibly wide range of topics along the […]
Continue readingHow do you cut up a birthday cake? If you’re like me until last year, you cut out wedges – a segment of arc tapering to a fragile point – and unless you eat the entire cake in one sitting (which can happen, of course) you’re left with a tricky shape to wrap in cling-film, […]
Continue readingTomorrow my 10-day Business Book Proposal Challenge kicks off – over 10 days I’ll take a group of business people and would-be authors step by step through the proposal document, helping them to clarify their thinking about their book idea, target readership, competition and so on. I first ran this challenge in June ane while […]
Continue readingIn my day now is a 15-minute slot at around 6.25am after I’ve run to warm up, done an online bootcamp, stretched, and then sit in the garden cooling off and writing. It won’t last forever of course: pretty soon the mornings will be too chilly, dark and often too wet and I’ll be forced […]
Continue reading(With apologies to Haruki Murakami.) Someone who read my blog about streaking pointed out that I often seem to talk about running and writing in the same breath. Maybe it’s because I’m a former blogging runner turned running writer. But I think fundamentally it’s because learning to run changed everything about me. I wasn’t a […]
Continue readingYesterday I accidentally committed to run every day and to blog every day. Here’s how it happened…. On Tuesday I emailed Seth Godin inviting him to be a guest on my podcast. If you’d asked me to rate the chances of him answering, let alone saying yes, I’d have estimated around 1 in 10. He […]
Continue readingThis is Day 1 of a who-knows-how-long-streak. Here’s the blog post that kicked it all off: the decision to commit to run and blog every day emerged in the process of writing this article… http://birdsontheblog.co.uk/what-seth-and-ron-taught-me-about-streaking/ And it’s all Seth Godin’s fault.
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