How to Beat Your Monkey

How to Beat Your Monkey

How’s that monkey doing? The one sitting on your shoulder? Is he gorging on your procrastination? Have you given him some morsels from social media, or the contents of a few special-offer emails, or let him snack on some celebrity gossip sites? He’s hungry, isn’t he?...
The Business of Writing

The Business of Writing

I wrote a twenty-three-and-a-half page story when I was ten. My story explained that Saturn is solid and the perfect hiding place for distant aliens preparing to launch the final step of their journey towards Earth. Saturn’s rings only gave the illusion the...