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It's thrilling when I post what I think is a shit idea and it resonates with an audience. Especially when all my good ideas don't resonate, and a single bad one does. It reminds me I don't own my creativity My new book: WORKING NINE LIVES WORKING NINE LIVESMy books and prints: Books and printsFind me: My free eBook of poemsInstagramTikTokYouTube

I'm the sum of my influences and nearly 50 years of just existing. I've been feeling recently I'm stepping into a void left my some of my favourite artists and writers. My new book: WORKING NINE LIVES WORKING NINE LIVESMy books and prints: Books and printsFind me: My free eBook of poemsInstagramTikTokYouTube

Only 1% of my stuff works and 99% of it is rubbish. It can effect me emotionally. I can get really grumpy when the creativity isn't going my way. But it's part of it. It's always been part of it. My new book: WORKING NINE LIVES WORKING NINE LIVESMy books and prints: Books and printsFind me: My free eBook of poemsInstagramTikTokYouTube

I posted something on social media recently about a little secret game I play with myself that seemed to resonate - that makes me believe we're constantly starving for meaning our lives. I might be wrong. My new book: WORKING NINE LIVES WORKING NINE LIVESMy books and prints: Books and printsFind me: My free eBook of poemsInstagramTikTokYouTube

I've writen and recorded a lot of cynical videos over the past 6 months. Perhaps it's time to mix it up (soonish).. My new book: WORKING NINE LIVES WORKING NINE LIVESMy books and prints: Books and printsFind me: My free eBook of poemsInstagramTikTokYouTube

I struggled for years trying to find the balance going to work and pretending to be sensible then getting home to get insane to make interesting things. My new book: WORKING NINE LIVES WORKING NINE LIVESMy books and prints: Books and printsFind me: My free eBook of poemsInstagramTikTokYouTube

It's something I've been rambling about recently, but it took 30 years to find an audience and none of the stuff I made over this time without an audience has gone to waste. My new book: WORKING NINE LIVES WORKING NINE LIVESMy books and prints: Books and printsFind me: My free eBook of poemsInstagramTikTokYouTube

Sometimes I'll be out somewhere, and for no reason at all, unexplained and unexpected happiness moves through me. My new book: WORKING NINE LIVES WORKING NINE LIVESMy books and prints: Books and printsFind me: My free eBook of poemsInstagramTikTokYouTube

This title is after a quote from True Detective season one by Nic Pizzolatto. YouTube clip here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Taf4P1uXR6Q This ep I crap on about art being a weird way of connecting, turning strangeness into magic. My new book: WORKING NINE LIVES WORKING NINE LIVESMy books and prints: Books and printsFind me: My free eBook of poemsInstagramTikTokYouTube

Here I crap on about traditional gatekeepers and our inner gatekeeper. And Trojan horsing/subversive social commentary through different avenues. My new book: WORKING NINE LIVES WORKING NINE LIVESMy books and prints: Books and printsFind me: My free eBook of poemsInstagramTikTokYouTube

Just a little thought on memes and how they shape thinking. I am no academic or sociological expert. Entertainment purposes only 😂 My new book: WORKING NINE LIVES WORKING NINE LIVESMy books and prints: Books and printsFind me: My free eBook of poemsInstagramTikTokYouTube

Thinking aloud helped massively this last year, mainly thanks to making this podcast! I never thought I'd enjoy it. I never know what I'm thinking untiil it tumbles outta my mouth, threads back through my ears and then written with the hand. My new book: WORKING NINE LIVES WORKING NINE LIVESMy books and prints: Books and printsFind me: My free eBook of poemsInstagramTikTokYouTube

I have to constantly trick my brain back into beginner mode. As soon as I think I'm an 'expert' on a particular way of writing, my writing is dead on the page. My new book: WORKING NINE LIVES WORKING NINE LIVESMy books and prints: Books and printsFind me: My free eBook of poemsInstagramTikTokYouTube

This week I read a few poems from my book and talk about a quote from Cormac McCarthy that was in the back of my mind while I wrote it. My new book: WORKING NINE LIVES WORKING NINE LIVESMy books and prints: Books and printsFind me: My free eBook of poemsInstagramTikTokYouTube

This week feels like a bit of a diary entry (recently they sorta have been) but here I waffle-reflect on finishing a book and searching and planting the seeds for a new idea to begin. Preorder my new book: WORKING NINE LIVES WORKING NINE LIVESMy books and prints: Books and printsFind me: My free eBook of poemsInstagramTikTokYouTube

Forks in the road towards a weird career in the arts. Preorder my new book: WORKING NINE LIVES WORKING NINE LIVESMy books and prints: Books and printsFind me: My free eBook of poemsInstagramTikTokYouTube

A little blah di da reflection on writing without an audience for 30 years. Preorder my new book: WORKING NINE LIVES WORKING NINE LIVESMy books and prints: Books and printsFind me: My free eBook of poemsInstagramTikTokYouTube

Sometimes I'll write stuff purely on 'cleverness' and it will lack something. It feels like I've sold out to myself. But sometimes I have to write these hollow pieces to break through to the real stuff. Preorder my new book: WORKING NINE LIVES WORKING NINE LIVESMy books and prints: Books and printsFind me: My free eBook of poemsInstagramTikTokYouTube

Talking about David Chase from the Sopranos, David Lynch, and not giving a shit as aid to creative breakthroughs. Preorder my new book: WORKING NINE LIVES WORKING NINE LIVESMy books and prints: Books and printsFind me: My free eBook of poemsInstagramTikTokYouTube

I thought I'd document the writing process of one of my videos I shared recently on TikTok and Instagram "Envy disguised as moral highground". Also there's a little bit I learned on writer's rooms (from the Sopranos showrunner, David Chase) at the end. Preorder my new book: WORKING NINE LIVES WORKING NINE LIVESMy books and prints: Books and printsFind me: My free eBook of poemsInstagramTikTokYouTube