Thursday 1st June 2017 Today was the first day resembling a return to normality. I woke up in my own bed and returned to the day job. Of course, now that Chasepalooza is over, I have a mountain of things to do – from the mundane such as unpacking all my gear and dealing with [...]
Friday 28th April 2017 As you know, I like to write each edition of The Climb at the end of the day and then edit the next day. In the interests of full disclosure, this one was written at the start of the next day (for reasons you’ll find out). My current schedule is leaving [...]
Friday 24th March 2017 Today was a day of doubt and a lesson in patience. The day job was a bit busy today. I seem to have run out of youtube videos from the people I follow, and so the day seemed to drag. I then had to go grocery shopping, cook dinner and get [...]
Sunday 12th March 2017 I had originally planned that issue 50 of The Climb would be my manifesto issue, where I would state my objectives and aims as a writer. But then I realised that my blog post on The Year of the Offensive was just that. And so I was stuck for what to [...]
In many ways, February was an odd month. Looking back I think my diagnosis at the end of January really affected me. It’s not that anything really changed. If anything my health has got better rather than worse over the last few years. But I still can’t eat beef without piling on a couple of [...]
Sunday 26th February 2017 Today has been fuelled by Monster energy drinks. I set my alarm early this morning so I woke up in time to go to swordfighting training. I was very tempted to give it a miss. After all, it’s not like I ever miss training when loads of other people do. But [...]
Friday 24th February 2017 Today the day job robbed me of my mental energy. I spent most of Friday in the day job doing some training with Microsoft. It was a great, intense 1-on-1 session but I need to write up the notes to ensure the training goes in and I can share the knowledge [...]
Friday 17th February 2017 Today I spent most of the day in an office learning about the features of Windows Server 2016. The traffic was terrible and I ended up 20 minutes late, which whilst nobody minded, just put me behind all day. This week has proved a busy work week with the day job [...]
This is a very interesting time for my writing career. On one hand, it could be about to take a massive step forwards. My agent might come back and say we’re ready to take to market. Alternatively they might say there’s still some work to do. And going forward, even if we take the book [...]
As I reach the end of the year, I find myself in the envious position that nearly everything I set out to do this year has been done. I’m naturally feeling very pleased with myself, especially given how ambitious those targets were. I now get to spend December relaxing (i.e. getting bored) working out my [...]
