I Built a Virtual Gazebo Instead of Writing My Book (Again)

ADHD, Fear, and Making Fish Suppers For Imaginary Builders

Dec 5 • 

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November 2025

Men Who Hate Women Are My New Best Friends

Gotta love the New Misogyny. Same as the Old Misogyny, but 100% more stupid.

Nov 21 • 

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The Spell I Didn't Know I Was Casting

How figures of speech become physical reality

Nov 14 • 

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Prizewinner and Dogshit in the Same Evening

On imposter syndrome, class damage, and finding champions in hostile rooms

Nov 7 • 

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October 2025

The £75,000 Fish Pedicure

How surrendering my house to fate (and my feet to hungry fish) manifested the exact book advance I'd written on a cheque from the universe

Oct 31 • 

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Feel Better About the State of the World in 17 minutes

If you're free next Friday you can test it for yourself

Oct 17 • 

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Hello, Human

Poetry under pressure and how I love making people cry

Oct 10 • 

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3:38

Why Abused Women Are Ahead of the Evolutionary Curve

We crashed, burned, and rebuilt. Now the world needs what we learned.

Oct 3 • 

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September 2025

So What If We Do Nothing?

"We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty" - Quintillian

Sep 26 • 

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Poison Envy

The brainworm of social media that stokes misery and failure

Sep 19 • 

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Leaks, Currents and Towels

A short break from sin

Sep 12 • 

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August 2025

On Pride (And Other Sins of the Self-Made)

What I learned writing my breakthrough novel

Aug 29 • 

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