Having just got back into Medium, I’ve discovered that you can now do these strange little series things on there. They work best on a phone and are basically a series of text cards and images that you can build on over time. As an experiment, and because I love the idea, I’ve started one … Continue reading MYTHOS: The Medium Series
Author: Julian Simpson
Five ways to instantly improve blah blah your productivity blah
Productivity. I don't even like the word, if I'm honest. And yet I find myself helplessly clicking on pretty much any link that promises to list five new ways to improve it. And the more of these articles I read, the more miserable I become because this business of productivity is not a cheerful one. … Continue reading Five ways to instantly improve blah blah your productivity blah
Music to write to…
This has come up with a couple of people recently, so I thought I’d make some recommendations. I tend to put a playlist together to get me in the right mood for specific projects, but there are some albums that seem to transcend that and are absolute winners regardless of what I’m doing. These are … Continue reading Music to write to…
Becoming an early riser
I’ve always been a night owl. The most productive part of my day, I thought, was in the late evening when I would fly through script pages, totally focused and without interruptions. I’d heard about all these early risers and I envied those writers who proudly announced in those Life In A Day pieces that … Continue reading Becoming an early riser
UNSANE
This is the trailer for the new movie by Steven Soderbergh. I think it’s INFODUMP-worthy because, aside from looking like a really good movie, the whole thing was shot on an iPhone.
On INKL
As newsletter subscribers know, I use a lot of RSS feeds to find strange and interesting stuff to look at everyday. Now and then I try adding some standard new feeds to the collection but they update so frequently that you end up with thousands of unread articles in your feed reader and the whole … Continue reading On INKL
The Red Room
One of the reasons I am who I am and do what I do is because of a BBC show that broadcast when I was eight years old. It was called Spine Chillers and it was essentially Jackanory with ghost stories. I have never thought to look for it, assuming it was either long gone … Continue reading The Red Room
