by Meg Dowell Do you find starting a project is more of a struggle than finishing one? Do you struggle to meet deadlines because you always start much later than you planned? I’ve tried to overcome this barrier in my writing for years. And while some procrastination can be a good thing, there […]
From the Petwood Hotel, Woodhall Spa: You’ve no doubt heard the famous poem ‘High Flight’ – a favourite among aviators and astronauts – but what do you know of the author? For our first aviation charity talk of 2020, Simon Devenish of the John Gillespie Magee Jr Foundation will talk about the life and poetry […]
the world is full
of steel and steel men
steel songs and the loss of real silence
so bound up in a steely silence
we are.
— Rosie Roche, February 2020
First impressions matter. Why? Because they tend to last. They are notoriously difficult to change if done wrong, and your blog is not exception. There are several “first impressions” your blog makes:
A blank page. There’s nothing more terrifying for a writer. Not an actual blank page, of course, but a Word Document with no words on it, that mysterious absence of words that is amplified by us staring at the white screen of death for so long that we feel our brains exploding. You think and […]
How can you hit a target you do not see? What about one you don’t even know exists? What if you didn’t know of the existence of the bow and arrow? What if you were unsure how to use your eyes, your hands, your mind to focus on the target you want to hit? How […]
There’s usually a right way and a wrong way to do something. That’s just in case you want to keep it simple, because there’s a wrong way, slightly less wrong, slightly better, and so on… Some ways lead nowhere at all. They only exist in order to provoke anger. The truth is that if you […]
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If you’re reading this article, you’re probably a bit frustrated with the way your blog is performing right now. Maybe it’s a lack of feedback, maybe it’s the quality of your content that disappoints you. Well, lucky you, I’ve compiled a short list of things you can do to spice your blog posts. Every tip […]
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We’ve all heard it before: being prolific is the best way to become successful as a blogger. It’s all about posting a lot of content as often as possible. But is it? Maybe you feel as if churning out one post after another is taking the joy out of writing. If so, I have some […]
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To read the 7 Habits of Highly Effective Bloggers click here. Ever wondered how we learn a new skill? For instance, how does a baby learn to walk? Do they do it perfectly from the first try? Of course not. They fail. Over and over again. Learning, you see, is not about getting things right, […]
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