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I May Have Lost My Mojo: 17 Articles to Help Boost Creativity
It's been one of those weeks where nothing seems to inspire me. I've had a few dud clients causing havoc with my stress and schedule, but I guess that's one of the things you have to deal with as a freelancer! (As a sidenote, I'm working on a piece for The...
Writing Tips: 15 Ways To Stay Productive in the New Year
Ah the start of a new year, bringing fresh bursts of energy and the hopeful glimmer of broadened horizons and optimistic lists. From November onwards I find myself putting things off until ‘the new year’. Oh, you know, ‘I’ll come to that in the New Year,’ etc etc....
How Your Life Can Change in a Year – a Look Back at 2014
Well, it’s that time of year where we look back and reflect on all the things we’ve done and, probably more accurately, all the things we didn’t do over the last twelve months. I try not to look at the negatives, instead focusing on the positive – what have I...
How to be a Travelling Storyteller
Let me tell you a story. That’s how it always begins, right? Everyone loves a good story - they make the world go round. The word story has recently evolved into some kind of monster. The world and his/her wife is bandying it around left, right and centre, but I...
How To Stay Motivated Whilst Writing
Since taking my writing freelance a few months ago, I’ve found that motivation is the most important thing to harness as my own boss. It’s the same for the novel I’m writing. But it’s always easier said than done, right? Motivation is that elusive word that...
Life as a Freelance Travel Writer: One Month in Spain
“How’s Spain?” Everyone asked me this week when I was back in the UK. “It’s great. Really great,” was my answer. Because what do you say when you can’t quite put into words the massive change and upheaval that moving abroad brings? Yes, it is great. It’s really,...
I Quit My Job to Do More of the Things I Love (and I’m Going to Spain)
I have an announcement. First, I could start by apologising for not posting in two weeks, but I’m not going to. It’s all part of the announcement, you see. I don’t really know where to start because I don’t really remember how it all started in the first place. The...
The Ultimate Guide to Romania for the First Time Visitor
To continue the series I am running that promotes Romania as a travel destination and straightens out any preconceptions people might have about visiting, here is the ultimate travel guide to Romania. It has taken me a while to collect this information and, of...
The Dilemma of Living in the Moment or Planning for the Future
If departure is the past and arrival is the future, then the road is the present, and there is nothing more spiritually difficult, or spiritually rewarding, than learning to live significantly in the present. - Leon Wieseltier Live in the moment, they say. Enjoy...
The New Year Scam and the Resolutions I will NOT be Sticking to
Well, we made it to 2013. Give yourself a well-deserved (?) pat on the back. It’s that time of year which sees people looking nostalgically back on the previous twelve months, boasting about the things that they have done and sweeping the things they wish they...
Why I Write a Travel Blog with a Full Time Job and the Launch of Traverse 2013
I’ve read a lot of discussions recently about travel bloggers who aren’t constantly on the road and the debate of whether they can even be called travel bloggers. Firstly, I like to travel. Secondly, I keep a blog about it. If we purely look at the semantics of it,...
How Travel Helped to Change My Life
There was a time when I didn’t leave the house for almost three months consecutively. The first thing I did when I woke up was vomit and the thought of leaving the house, even just to go to the shop, brought me to tears. You see, when I was a teenager I had a...