
Sins from the Office of One
Working alone from home is hard, it’s easy to fall into some common freelancer sins. It’s even harder with a teething seven month old Jack Russell…
Working alone from home is hard, it’s easy to fall into some common freelancer sins. It’s even harder with a teething seven month old Jack Russell…
This has been a life-changing four weeks in which I’ve lost numerous important things; patience, sleep and definitely a few layers of skin around the ankles. But it’s been a month that has taught me more about myself than any other…
Yes, that’s right, reading. And not just your average back-of-a-cereal-box, Netflix credits or how-to books but actual fiction. I thought ‘Jeez Spadge, put down the friggin Macbook and pick up an actual book’…
When writing, a lot of people automatically go into ‘bullshit’ mode. Do you know what I mean? They sit down at their laptop and start using unnaturally long, complicated language and quoting Wikipedia…
The first time I tried this, the inexperience left me tired, poor and unhealthy. It was a valuable experience but one that majorly stressed me out. This time around, I was determined to make it work for me…
Sitting in front of a blank word document, in my experience, is the worst thing you can do. That, and giving yourself a deadline of course, closely followed by a migraine. Nothing like a bit of pressure to replace any thought processes with pure panic!…
It makes me sad that so many industries, I suppose the medical one in particular, rule out creative problem-solvers from their team. That’s what creative people do; they solve problems and find a solution in a way that nobody else would think of…
Getting my head around Google Authorship has been on my to-do list for months, but today my boss told me to sort my life out and so here are my findings, to hopefully save you guys some time…
Moving to a new place always makes me wonder if my nickname, Spadge, will follow. Hundreds in Lincoln called me Spadge for almost 8 years, but this was a new job, in a new city, with no external introductions. Did ‘Spadge’ survive the leap?