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Mark Pilgrim, writer and Google employee has these fine, ferocious words to say about aspiring to be a writer. Read them, turn off the internet and then get on with writing your next book. (That’s a message to myself, not to you!)
“I’m a three-time (soon to be four-time) published author. When aspiring authors learn this, [...]
Rannoch Moor’s colossal bleak landmark appeared even more forboding than usual as the train climbed north through Scotland. The ground was thick with snow, the sky grey-white and threatening. Burns and rivers were frozen solid with snot-yellow ice and the motionless rivers snaked towards iced-over lochs round the base of black mountains marbled with white. [...]
My third book, Ten Lessons from the Road, came out earlier this year. I’m really pleased with it, and I would love people to read it. But I’m realistic about how few people will actually read the book. So I decided to give it away -for free- here on my blog. Hopefully it will reach [...]
OK, I’ll confess. I’m writing this blog post because I should be busy writing the book about my walk across India. I’m procrastinating.
Procrastination is the curse of writers, of the self-employed, and of all of us when we’re suffering a bit from doubt, ennui or a lack of motivation.
Here then is a list of some [...]
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I’m having a terrible day of procrastination today, wrestling with my India book and just becoming annoyed with everything, myself included. I should read this to sort myself out.
Instead I enjoyed re-reading Don Miller’s description of a writer’s life:
“Writers don’t make any money at all. We make about a dollar. It is terrible. But then [...]
My third book, Ten Lessons from the Road, came out earlier this year. I’m really pleased with it, and I would love people to read it. But I’m realistic about how few people will actually read the book. So I decided to give it away -for free- here on my blog. Hopefully it will reach [...]
A while back I was interviewed for the Creative Penn website, an invaluable resource for aspiring and beginning authors.
It was an interesting chat and we covered plenty of ground, including,
“# Learning how to write by reading and just getting on with it
# Writing a diary on the road and then turning it into a [...]
A fantastic excerpt from a James Elroy Flecker poem that I stumbled across here.
Go as a pilgrim and seek out danger
far from the comfort
and the well lit avenues of life.
Pit your every soul against the unknown
and seek stimulation in the comfort of the brave.
Experience cold, hunger, heat and thirst
and survive to see
another challenge
and another dawn.
Only [...]
My friend Rob Lilwall has just released a book and DVD about his 3 year ride back to England from Siberia (via Papua New Guinea, Oz, and Afghanistan…). You can buy them here.
Rob has kindly agreed for me to feature some of his writing here on this site. In this blog extract Rob talks about [...]
Alastair spent 4 years cycling 46,000 miles round the world, a journey described as "the first great adventure of the new millennium". He is currently training for SOUTH, the first unsupported return journey to the South Pole. Click here to read more.
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