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Don’t stop blogging!

I received an email two days ago from a visitor that wanted to let me know they enjoyed some of my ‘perpetual traveling’ articles, and also said ‘don’t stop blogging!’ because its been a while since my last post. And … Read more …

200 Words

I was reminded this morning of a blog post I wrote back in 2015, 200 Crappy Words. I’ve been struggling with writing this past couple of years, and reading that post reminded me of how to overcome writers’ block. Just … Read more …

It’s not over yet

Back in 2016 I wrote It’s time to be quiet for a while. Well… I’ve been quiet for a while! My last post was early December last year, over 10 months ago. That’s the longest I’ve been quiet on this … Read more …

Thoughts on writing quality

I was reading something a blogger was writing, about the quality of their writing and how they think about it. This writer analysed everything they wrote prior to publishing, and asked themselves, ‘would anyone want to make a profit from … Read more …

I’ll explore a new writing style

One of the things I’ve enjoyed doing with this blog is writing reasonably lengthy posts, at least 500 words. But if nothing much is happening or inspiration fails me, then I just haven’t bothered TRYING to write something. Of course, … Read more …

Oh hi, I’m back

Back in March I went on a journey to a new website. It was foolish of me. I’m back now. There was no real point in changing websites. It didn’t have the effect or the result I was expecting, and … Read more …

Writing an interesting life

Back in 2013 I struggled to write 1,000 words a day. That’s a lot of words. Then in 2014 I was writing 500 words a day, but realising how difficult it is to write so much when you have a life … Read more …

How to interview someone for your blog

About 3 years ago I was interested in learning more about ‘perpetual travelling’ so I came up with an idea to find people who were already doing it and talk to them about it. Today, I thought I’d write about … Read more …

It’s time to be quiet for a while

I feel the need to avoid writing and stay silent for a while. This is likely a process that begun with I’ve been through the desert, continued with Seek the light, Rediscovering the Warrior Sage and then with Monitoring the ego. Things are shifting … Read more …

The new Articles page is finished

I’ve been writing a lot of articles over the past 17 years, and over this past 9 months I’ve been going through this blog and listing all the articles in a single page. You can see them here: Articles Please … Read more …

2015 Annual Report

WordPress sent me a report today that detailed a few interesting things about my blog over the past year, which I thought I’d share with you, just in case you’re interested. In 2015 I had 56,000 unique visitors (some of … Read more …

The Shadow – chapter 2

The Shadow (chapter 1) — Alex Sutton was feeling confused. Lying on top of his bed, he was browsing the internet on his tablet, but not really noticing what he was doing. His mind was on the evening’s activities with … Read more …

A short story: “Choices”

Choices. That’s what it was all about, wasn’t it. He only wished this choice wasn’t his to make. He thought back to last week when it all started, when the lights in the sky appeared and no one knew why. … Read more …