Breakfast is back. Yes, the Like Minds Breakfast events have returned. The new venue is in Farringdon, at the HQ/Showroom of Swedish office furniture makers Kinnarps. I like them already because they provide full-size pastries as part of the welcoming breakfast. It is always hard to network at full throttle when offered bite-sized pastries and […]
Four Words To Blow Away The Doubts
It’s amazing what a kind word can do. An encouraging word. Or four. In my last post, I wrote about the crash that often comes after things appear to be going well. This is where beta readers can be helpful. In my case, these are really gamma readers. These are readers who combine affection for […]
After The High Of Writing, The Low Of Doubt
See if this rings a bell. After a few false starts — or a regular bout of procrastination — you finally get down to work. Whether it’s for a day or a week or a month, at the end of this you finally have a first draft of something. Finished. Ready for revision. During the […]
Give Names To Your People, Places, And Things
For the best part of a year in the early 1980s I lived with my then girlfriend in the wee village of Crail in the East Neuk of Fife. Meg was in her final year of university — studying French at nearby St Andrews — and I was doing what I often did when given […]
Rudy Rucker In Reigate (Sort Of)
This is my copy of Rudy Rucker’s Journals. It arrived last Friday. Strictly speaking, it arrived on the Wednesday but I wasn’t at home and the postman couldn’t get it through the letter box so took it back to the sorting office, from where I finally collected it on Friday morning. The picture on the […]
Copywriters? We don’t need no stinking copywriters!
You have a new product or service ready to go and a new website to market it. Perhaps this product is going to be the very foundation of your new business. Budgets are tight, of course. You’ve already shelled out for site design, the build, the hosting, the payment gateway, and the t-shirts. However much […]