Travel for food, travel with books, travel to run — Hi Globetrotters. My name is… Priscilla. I used to write under ‘Midori by the Sea’, so you might know me that way. I love to travel because… It’s the whole package — a stimulation of all senses. No travel programs or books can replace the realness of actually travelling. The…

Tell your story in your stories. This is not the place for storytelling — Writing an author’s biography is one of the hardest things and, somehow, always an afterthought. We spend a lot of time crafting the literature but very little on our personal branding. …

Novelists reacting to Charles Bukowski’s So You Wanna Be a Writer — My friend Imo and I were MA Creative Writing students, and now we are both working novelists. I also ran a literary magazine called Battersea Anthology in London. Having over 25 years of writing experience each, we scoffed when we came across a poem written by the rivered writer Charles…

Spiritual practice to include in your everyday training — For 17 weeks, I put on the Nike Run App’s guidance track before every training run. The coach’s voice helped me through every mile, and I loved it. However, one day, the familiar and tranquil voice from the Headspace app came to my eardrums. Nike has partnered with Headspace to…

How to train your writing muscles — There are two types of writers. The first type actually writes. The second type says they have a story in mind but never seem to write it out. Oh, you know, just having a story in your mind can’t make you a writer. You are just a daydreamer. Most people…

Because they come all the time and it makes us feel like failures — Someone asked a millionaire entrepreneur what’s the most important quality of a successful person. He answered: never quit. No matter how many times you fail. Never quit. Someone asked a sportsman what’s the most important quality of his success. …

Practical tips and honest thoughts from the audience — Before the internet and social media became what it is today, one of the very few ways for writers to be seen in public was usually through book launches — either having their own or attending others’. …

It’s a degree that would NOT increase your employability — This is part 1 of the MA Creative Writing series. I used to work in finance. If I see someone with an MA in creative writing on their resume, I would only have one question in mind: This person has a dream, is this job really what they wanted? Obviously…

5 Ways to Use the Internet to Boost Productivity and Ditch Mindless Social Media Scrolling — What are your suggested pages when you click your Google Chrome to a blank page? I’m going to be honest here: YouTube, Netflix, Gmail, and Canva. The rest are social media pages. How’s Facebook on there? Do I spend that much time on social media pages? Everything is a two-edged…