Guess what? We've finished the report I was telling you about. It is a fascinating piece of work (even if I say so myself) on which my team and I worked hard and very, very smart.
The whole thing is… 
It's been an interesting week!
It all started with a small misunderstanding about dates.
Exactly about a year ago I was in South Africa when my telephone rang. I didn't know the voice and I didn't know the accent. It was… 
I have great news for you, my friends. Remember the academic article I set out to write last Sunday?
Rome was not built in a day; academic articles can’t be written in a day either, I found. But I did… 
Yesterday I set out to write a whole academic article in a day. It is time for the truth: did I manage to do it?
Well, partially.
Yesterday I ended up with the body of an article, about 8,000 words long.… 
I know: it sounds impossible.
I still have to try and finish an academic article in a day. It may be a very, very long day.
Couple of months ago, a colleague from Spain e-mailed me to ask whether I will… 
Last Tuesday morning I boarded a flight from St Louis to Newark; there was no time to run before the flight (had to be at the airport at 9 am) and I felt too exhausted to write.
The transfer time… 
Guess where I was last week?
Yep, I was, and still am, in St. Louis, the US attending Fincon13. After all, being a ‘best paid writer’ is likely to include taking my blogging to a whole different summit.
Travelling across the… 
The second week of my Rotund Writer Challenge to transform myself from a Rotund Writer into a Happy and Healthy Writer is over.
During that week I had to visit Lund, in Sweden for my academic work. We held a… 
I am just back from a nice one hour run and have been thinking about how and when it became a necessity for us to exercise with purpose. Today we take the notion of exercise as given, it is… 
When they asked one of the great Italian sculptors to share his artistic secret, he replied:
'How do I sculpt? Well, it is very easy, really: I get a block of marble and get rid of everything that doesn't look… 
The second week of my Rotund Writer Challenge to transform myself from a Rotund Writer into a Happy and Healthy Writer is over.
How did I do?
Writing 10,000 words a week
Last week I didn't reach my goal of writing 10,000… 
Last week I announced my commitment to transforming myself from a 'rotund writer' to a 'healthy and happy writer'. These will be done in 'three easy steps'; well, no, not really - just kidding.
These will be done through the… 
In a previous post I said that it is impossible to tell people how to write because doing that affects the outcome - the text - and deprives it from originality and creativity. It is however possible to come… 
Couple of days ago I published an article setting out the Rotund Writer challenge. As part of the challenge I pledged to:
Write 2,000 words per day Monday to Friday (or 10,000 words per week);
Run (move) for an hour every… 
Couple of years ago I decided that I'll give this 'writing thing' a serious go. Until then I wrote because I had to and disregarded - or brushed off - people who said that I am a 'good writer'.… 
Who doesn't want to become better? Well, okay; there are some people who don't want to get better, I'll give you that. But the likelihood is that if you're reading this site you are a writer and you want… 
...so that I could just go and prove you wrong.
But let me tell you first what we are talking about here.
I have had a dream for several years now. Many women dream about handbags, designer clothes or a good… 
I will have to start this article with a disclaimer: while I have direct experience of writing my experience of prospecting for gold is far from that. But from what I have learned about writing and prospecting for gold… 
Look at this picture: it was taken on the 18th April, 2010 and I am finishing the first Brighton marathon. Yep, I did run 42 k and was still going strong. This wasn't my first marathon either - let's… 
Yes, I've read the book 'Rich Dad, Poor Dad'. Despite what I may think about the personal finance advice it offered, I still remember it fondly for two things. One, reading this book marked the beginning of reading, learning… 
Being a writer comes at a price; in my case an expanding waistline and copious amounts of chocolate. My answer is the Rotund Writer Challenge: a fusion of writing, exercise and eating. Join me and become a Rotund Writer Challenger.
