This will be my last post on this site. It’s become too expensive and I really can’t justify keeping it, so I have resurrected my old blog, erylshields.com and added another url, https://erylgasperdick.com, so you can get to it via … Continue reading On the Move
February already and I’m only just making the first post of the year! I have a number of excuses, the biggest being all the house renovations. We’re still not quite finished, we only installed a light fixture in the sitting … Continue reading Renewal
When I got an iPad (my first) in April, I had high hopes for all the things I’d be able to do with/on it. My laptop is getting old (5 years!) and I’d like to keep it for work stuff … Continue reading Mobility
This post is an experiment. WordPress updated automatically a few days ago and no comment box appeared with my last post (thanks to Scarlet for pointing that out). Also the header image didn’t appear in the post itself, but is … Continue reading Experiment
This week’s story is a true one. I did begin to write a normal, fictitious one, but found myself too absorbed in the new project I’ve taken on. It involves working on-site with a client, helping them with all the … Continue reading Story-A-Week #14: Birthday
I’ve been working my way through Benjamin Hardy’s 30 Behaviours to Make You Unstoppable in 2019, and am half way through #12 which is about reducing your avoidance behaviours. Hardy gives two main reasons for avoidance and in the last … Continue reading In Search of a Harmonious Self
Still on Jeff Goins’s Writers’ Road Map, the next step, the seventh, in his twelve step plan is to get 100 subscribers. Why? He sold, he says, fifteen thousand copies of a recent book ‘thanks to email.’ And goes on: … Continue reading Off The Map: A Writer’s Stumble
Last week I told of how I stumbled on Jeff Goins’s Writer’s Road Map, and decided to try and follow his 12 step plan to earning a living as a writer. The first two steps saw me ‘clarify [my] worldview,’ … Continue reading On Being a Curious Authentic Artist
In the spirit of my newly hewn Curious-Authentic-Artist personality (read on for clarity) I thought I’d share an experiment. A week or so ago I downloaded a free booklet called The Writer’s Road Map, written by Jeff Goins. I stumbled … Continue reading Experiments in Living a Writer’s Life
Saturday morning: running with snot, headachy, feeble, in no fit state to do do anything but return to bed, I found myself dragging large pieces of furniture across a carpeted room. As I think I mentioned in my last London … Continue reading Spatial Awareness
Eryl Gasper-Dick, still curious 