Whenever you’re overwhelmed by the task of your writing, by waht you agve set yoruself, think of it this way:

Art Practice Mentoring encourages both receptive and strategic ways of making creative work. Here I outline some of the approaches I’ve developed to benefit artists and writers.

As a rule, I would say that if something (a project, a work, an idea, a word) is too big or too much initially…

Procrastination can be so debilitating. How can we trick procrastination? How can we use it in order to understand how it works and get out of it. For instance, what is the connection between procrastination and a type of metal?

Go with your gut? This is when you know that you know even if you don’t know that you do. It’s a knowing at the level o your second brain, your guy brain, your intuition. You can train yourself up to recognize it, and I want to look at this as a way of working…

It’s easy to feel your confidence — both in your creative work and in yourself — knocked back by circumstances. I look at what's in the word itself, breaking it down to build yourself back up. Sometimes the simplest of actions can be so very powerful, such as daring oneself to make a cup of coffee as the poet Mahmoud Darwish would do…

There are so many ways of working and of developing a project. In many ways each project demands its own approach. But there are certain routines that help.

In this micro-talk I suggest one way of creating a semblance of order that has made sense to me, especially when my time is limited, and especially the asterisk section!

At Solstice - Poem for the End of Year (4´38) is a short piece written and recorded to send off today, during the solstice transit that stretches from 21-22 December. A time to pause, play and start to take stock...hope you'll enjoy.