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How I Use My Ears To Be More Productive

Ghostwriting pros and cons. Is it worthwhile or soul-destroying?

Inspired By Silicon Valley, I Now Want To Be A Quirky Coder. Hello Python!

How To Escape The Per-Word Trap And Make Real Money As A Writer

The Penguin: A Brutal Descent Into Gotham’s Really Grim Underworld

books in black wooden book shelf

Switching Focus To Short Stories To Make A Fortune

AI Writes Poor Prose – Use It To Fix Procrastination

The White Lotus Season 3 is in stunning Thailand, where I live. Is it realistic?

Don’t Watch The Fantastic ‘The White Lotus’ On A Plane!

Scheduled Tasks On ChatGPT Is Actually Pretty Cool

Fantastic tunes to listen to help write more and focus

I’m now addicted to Dredge and Balatro

After Career Advice From ChatGPT I’m Trying Something Drastic

The Occult – Rankin, Lovecraft, And Marenghi Are Warping My Mind

The most depressing day annually, and weird Christmas traditions

Next year, I am improving my chess skills. Here’s how

To Monetize Or Not? Reaching An Astonishing 100 Subscribers On Substack

From Zork to AI Dungeon: How AI is Revolutionizing Interactive Text Adventures

How to be more productive when writing – great music and apps!

Getting Substack subscribers and changing writing focus

Monday, June 02, 2025

Blog Life! TV

Apple worship

ward 25/05/2011

I saw a cool documentary the other day, called ‘Secrets of the Superbrands’ on good old BBC. It was actually pretty interesting given that I generally don’t care about brand … Read More

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Blog Books

Tricks of the Mind by Derren Brown

ward 11/05/2011

Tricks of the Mind by Derren Brown teaches you, the Padawan, some awesome tricks. It also has quite a broad scope and touched on lots of things I am genuinely fascinated by. When it comes to mind powers I am now at least 10% more superior than most of you. It astounds me that I am still broke.

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Blog

Science Fiction Website

ward 08/05/2011

I just found the most incredible new site! It boldly goes where only several hundred other websites have dared to go. Except it is slightly bolder. Actually it was written … Read More

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Blog Life!

Aliens please abduct me!

ward 26/04/2011

This website now gets over 100,000 hits a month. (I know! Why? I just talk shit.) That still makes me a speck on the arse of the interweb, but it’s … Read More

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Films

Death Race

ward 24/04/2011

I had been meaning to watch this for ages. I remember watching the original, set in the far off year of 2000. A more violent age when everyone wore spandex. … Read More

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Blog

Amazon can see into my brain

ward 15/04/2011

This morning I logged into Amazon and checked out my recommendations. At first I was a bit shocked at what kind of twisted artistic deviant they must think I am. … Read More

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Blog TV

30 Rock

ward 05/04/2011

A review of the sitcom 30 Rock with Tina Fey.

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Blog Games

Killzone 3 review

ward 23/03/2011

An awesome of review of the incredible Killzone 3. Read the review, stay for the trailer.

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Blog Films TV

The Human Centipede

ward 17/03/2011

The Human Centipede is a pretty pointless horror film once you get over the main premise.

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Art Blog London

The Secret Cinema

ward 09/03/2011

Last week myself and Mrs wordofward went to the mysterious sounding ‘Secret Cinema’. We were invited by our hip and trendy friends who took us to Shunt. It’s not just … Read More

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Blog Games Life!

The future of storytelling

ward 22/02/2011

Computer games have come into their own and are now a full blown story-telling medium in their own right.

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Art Blog London

Susan Hiller Exhibition

ward 18/02/2011

Being the cultural man about town that I am, I went to the Susan Hiller exhibition at Tate Britain yesterday. Actually, it was my wife’s suggestion otherwise I would have … Read More

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Blog Life! London Travel

The Bangkok Podcast

ward 11/02/2011

Well I’m back in Blighty. Bangkok was, as always, very exciting and warm and fun and full of hot sexy, er, food. I’m feeling mildly homesick for the place which … Read More

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Blog

Huge insincere apologies

ward 03/02/2011

I know I said I would write more this trip but I haven’t so deal with it. It has all been a bit of a madhouse. A giddy whirlwind of … Read More

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Blog Life! Travel

Back in Bangkok

ward 25/01/2011

Well we are back from Koh Chang. Quite frankly it was awesome. I miss being able to jump on a bus and be on a stunning tropical beach a few … Read More

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Blog

Holiday in Bangkok

ward 16/01/2011

Well hello. How are you? Sorry I haven’t been in touch much but I am currently on holiday in Thailand. I also happen to be staying in a fairly remote … Read More

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Blog Life!

Advertising beamed into your head

ward 31/12/2010

When I was a lad there were fears that we were going to be bombarded with subliminal advertising and would end up like a horde of zombies roaming the land … Read More

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Blog Life!

Happy Christmas! For Christ’s sake, stay at home.

ward 24/12/2010

Hooray! Christmas is here again! All hail Santa and Amazon and last minute shopping on Oxford street (or your local hellish equivalent). I was in Soho last night and it … Read More

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Blog Life! London

Riots in London

ward 11/12/2010

Two days ago I narrowly missed a load of riots in good old London. In the morning I had to get a visa for my upcoming trip to Thailand. I … Read More

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Books

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo book review

ward 07/12/2010

I’m probably not alone in having seen The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo everywhere I go and as I rather pathetically consider myself to be both an individual and a literary type, I wasn’t all that bothered.

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