If you’re ‘a name’ - a politician, a sports person, an actor or media personality - you might do so in order to entertain, set the record straight, earn money. And you do so because you know people will be interested. But what about everyday folk with their ‘normal’ lives - though every life is … Continue reading Why do ‘ordinary people’ write memoirs?
Category: Life
Taking my own advice?
Today our daughter went off to start her four years at University. Yesterday we had the 'dad talk' - the somewhat self-indulgent attempt at sharing wisdom. The most pertinent piece of advice I tried to give her was to 'make the most of it'; that it was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity; that she will never be … Continue reading Taking my own advice?
Twitter saddens me…
...because it's like some vast goldfish bowl where millions of small fish are desperately trying to get to the very few crumbs of food that are thrown on the surface from time to time... ...because people are competitive - in a nice way, usually - about the number of followers they have: "I have 1,800", … Continue reading Twitter saddens me…
Getting my act together…
Following on from my recent rumination about time and what to do with it ("Today's the day"), over the last few days I have turned my attention to kick-starting some new Coverstory books publishing initiatives. The first of these is a new short story collection following on from the 2022 volume Making Marks in the … Continue reading Getting my act together…
When one door closes…
This was how my study looked yesterday. Today everything in the picture has gone and the room is bare. Tomorrow afternoon it will belong to someone else - and my new study will probably start out by looking much like this image... A strange continuum. Or the end/beginning of an era. At least that's how … Continue reading When one door closes…
Yesterday & Today: 30th July
After 211 consecutive daily posts I think current circumstances are conspiring to bring the curtain down on "Yesterday and Today". Not only is the house move beginning to be all-consuming, I have little to report in the way of projects and progress. Yes, I can pad posts out with thoughts on semi-related topics, but it … Continue reading Yesterday & Today: 30th July
Yesterday & Today: 29th July
I don't really know what to say. One meagre paragraph of 'Z' is hardly a stellar return, but that was all I managed yesterday. I do have the excuse that the day was astonishingly stressful as we tried to force through the exchange of contracts on the chain in which our house move sits. Some … Continue reading Yesterday & Today: 29th July
Yesterday & Today: 28th July
Yesterday was probably my most barren day of the entire year. Apart from plugging some author bio's into New Contexts: 5 and a little more navel-gazing about future projects, there was nothing of note. I'm sure this is in part down to the stress of wanting our house move finalised - which doesn't bode well … Continue reading Yesterday & Today: 28th July
Yesterday & Today: 27th July
Apart from a little New Contexts: 5 admin, yesterday was really all about navel-gazing i.e. me trying to decide what I should be working on next. Or working on when we've moved - hopefully -three weeks' time. I ended up finding myself wondering whether I was constantly thinking about writing long fiction because that's what … Continue reading Yesterday & Today: 27th July
Yesterday & Today: 26th July
It was a low-key day yesterday with my planned work being to continue the insertion of my authors' bios into the New Contexts: 5 draft. Still a few more to harvest. In amongst the wait and conversations about house contract exchange (still not resolved!) I did pick up and play with an old idea for … Continue reading Yesterday & Today: 26th July
Ian Gouge - Writer 