That bard said some good stuff - the Significant Other Penguin used to send me texts in Iambic Pentameter, that's one of the reasons I fell in love with them. You have to love a brain like that - they have an MA in Shakespeare Studies. We've been together nearly 12 years now - with no real signs of wanting to be anywhere else.

You can criticise me for my views if you want - as explained in this piece, I don't really mind. Life is too short to take things particularly seriously and if I ever catch myself doing it then I go for a long walk. Life is an exciting blip of consciousness between two infinite periods of nothingness, I'm not going to spend it caught up with people being mean on the internet - and I find debate to be quite fun. I like law.

Yes. Now I don't start a story unless I can finish a first draft in one sitting. It might take me a month to edit the thing, but the idea has to be vomited in one sitting. That's a big part of the reason why my pieces seem like stream of consciousness - because they often are.

With wider creative projects I label an idea for a script or a screenplay a 'shiny' when it first arrives in my head. I don't write anything about that shiny for about a month. If it's still badgering away at my subconscious after a month then I'll make a plan to add it into my writing schedule and do a series of limited vomits.

I don't hold with all that neurodivergence stuff that people use - but I am aware of the limitations of my brain. I am very prone to losing passion and running out of steam, very prone to getting distracted and having little in the way of organisational executive function. I like small discrete pieces of work and need a project manager for anything complicated - I'm not a good project manager for myself.

That said, I have recently acquired an app called 'Things3' which is paying dividends with my scheduling - and allows me to break my project down into small manageable chunks, I can then judiciously apply passion when I'm in the mood by checking the app. Most of my story edits are done this way . :o)

Also, as you've probably seen - I have no real problems with not writing anything for Medium for a few months, if there's other stuff going on in my life then I'll do that because this platform isn't my life, just a fun part of it.. Don't stress - and if people complain, that's on them - you aren't responsible for the feelings of other people. :o)