ymmv .17 – Exhaustion I’ve seen more than one meme about not glamorising exhaustion and I’ve already had enough so I’m going to throw my hat in the ring on this topic. Open the Can o’ Rant…now. Look, I get it, self-care is important, super important, anyone who knows my history knows I get this, […]

ymmv .16 – Don’t Only Write Comics I want to be an amazing writer of comics. As such, I write a lot of comics [see the 10k pages of hot garbage rule], but then I also write a lot that’s not comics. Here’s why. Writing is the endeavour of wrangling words until you unlock the […]

ymmv .15 – Writing the Love of your Life I love writing Deer Editor. I’ve written a small sample of comics, from 5 page shorts, to a collected trade of story that’s 100+ pages long, but pretty much everything has always been very hardwired to end. I know no one’s entrusting a six year plan […]

ymmv .14 – Launching a Book Launching a book is no laughing matter. In fact, it’ll have you bleary eyed with lack of sleep, it’ll have you grinding your teeth down to Stonehenge nubs, and it’ll have you leaking tears just at the thought of FOCs and Diamond Order Codes and finding that fine line […]

ymmv .13 – I Haven’t Written A Goddamned Thing It’s weeks into 2016 and I haven’t written a goddamn thing. Well, revised for clarity, I managed to get within hours of January ending before I scripted anything. And all this not writing made me feel like rubbish. It makes me feel like I’m doing nothing. […]

ymmv .12 – #366stories I made a New Year’s Resolution. I’m writing a story idea a day down and putting it into this notebook. It’s my #366stories notebook. The aim of the game is just to get my mind spinning. It should also – conceivably – just be a little thing every day. I couldn’t […]

ymmv .11- Top 10 Writing Swipes from the Books of 2015 I’m writing this on my iPad in the past at a barber as I wait for a cut. I have to keep getting up to offer my seat to harried mothers who no doubt just want their swarm presentable for Xmas photos. This might […]