I was reminded last week of a little piece of good advice about writing: Always park on the downhill.
The message is, don’t round your writing off neatly before calling it a night. That may make it difficult for you to pick up the thread of your piece when you go back to it the following [...]

A work night tonight. My task now is to cut my previous draft into pieces and reassemble, filling in the blanks that emerge as I go.
The blanks can get pretty big.
The piece I’m working on right now concerns itself with a tabloid television story and one of those famous combative interviews. It’s not an easy [...]

Sometimes, just sometimes, you find yourself taking photos of yourself to stop yourself falling asleep at 12:15 on a Thursday morning. For some reason you’re wearing a hat. Then you upload the photo to your blog for the rest of the world to see.
And then, and only then, do you think: “What in the fucking [...]