At the start of this year, I gave myself the goal of writing at least 1,000 words a day. We’re going strong thus far, but what I’ve found is that there can be times when I have absolutely no idea what to write. I’ll sit in front of the laptop, the little blinking cursor on the infinite expanse of the blank page, and not have a clue what to do. Often when that happens, I’ll just start typing and see where it leads. To quote the great Michael Scott: Sometimes I'll start a sente

There’s always talk of finding your voice in your writing, content, music, whatever. You have to find a style that’s uniquely yours. And at the same time, there’s this pressure, right from the very moment you begin creating, that you have to be unique. If you do something even remotely similar to someone else’s work, then you’re a plagiarist. But the reality is this: we’re not born knowing who we are. We don’t come into the world with a voice and a style all our own. From the

At the start of 2026, I set myself a list of goals. Various things I wanted to do, which included writing more, walking more, reading more, a whole lot “mores.” Yet when it got to January, I realised there wasn’t some magical switch that got flipped at the turn of the new year which suddenly made me a hardcore, ultra-disciplined robot. By 5th January, I was still doing the same stuff as I was in 2025. Things needed to change. Enter the Streaks Tracker Inspired by Dominic Hart