• Pick a category

    I realize if people read a blog they sort of expect consistency. Not: a blog post here, a review there, a poem here etc. I should pick an avenue and try and stick to it. Especially if I want to improve in a specific writing area. I think book reviewing may suit me well. It would encourage me to read more and think more about what I am reading. I often just move onto the next book with little reflection. I will finish my book today – perhaps I could write a review for that one in my next post? The book is actually about a critic (of film not book)!

  • Boom. A weeks worth.

    I’ve now written just under a week’s worth of posts for this website in just 40 or so minutes. I think that it is totally possible to build up a “streak” if I just take time once a week to do this. I don’t care too much about quality. Just getting stuff out, experimenting. I’ll get to quality later.

    There’s something to be said for rapid writing. I even sort of did it very obviously with some stream of consciousness posts. Just trying that out. Not sure if it will be a staple of the site. It’s very easy to do and I think they’re quite entertaining.

  • 24/7 mindfulness

    Seeing, typing, feeling.

    I have to note. Typing. What I am doing. Feeling. What I am feeling. Frustration. Where’s my attention. To be mindful. To remember. Hearing, tasting, smelling. Remember to be present. Itching. I’ll try to do it as much as I can. Feeling, pressing, sitting. But I feel like I am picking an object for attention for the sole purpose of noting. Confusion, anger, itching.

    It can’t be done. Sitting, typing, feeling. No one can possibly remember all the time to do this. Grasping, blinking, rising. It’s relentless! Itching. I don’t have the vocabulary! Feeling.

    Seeing, typing, feeling.

Hello! I’m Tom (he/him), based in London, UK. I write prose & poetry, also some small reflections I want to share. Enjoy 🙂

I have a Youtube channel where I post creative things sometimes.