• Could this be your new favorite writing app?

    I’m in love. 🥰 Maybe it’s just a little crush. I dunno. But if you’re a writer I think you’ll LOVE this one too. In Justin Blackman’s email today I discovered a link to his own app, Verbatim. It’s like… Read more…

  • A simple lifehack that took zero brain power and left my floor tidier than ever

    I moved my rubbish bin (waste paper basket) 1.5 metres closer to me so it sits right beside my desk. Genius, right? My room has never been cleaner. Usually there’s a wasteland of tissues and other grubby rubbish around the… Read more…

  • How to avoid email clangers

    I was looking over one of the emails I sent earlier this year… before this list. And… What a cringe! Not the email topic. I mean… it was about life and real stuff. But WOW! The spelling… the grammar… the… Read more…

  • Burning Questions Day

    It’s Sunday! (Well, it is in my neck of the global woods.) And… I’m officially designating Sundays as: “Answering Your Burning Questions Day” So if you’d like a chance of being world famous in this freelancer daily email dystopia… I… Read more…

  • Daily Email Bravado

    Sometimes I just get uber-excited. No… NOT about paying for a ride in some stranger’s car! German slang über. Got it? Well… fancy that: I am SO excited about THIS email I managed to self-derail it in the second sentence!… Read more…

  • Stinky petrol feet

    Yesterday I pulled up to the petrol station. My car running on fumes. And I’m at the pump watching it whirring away happily while it picks my back pocket. Bonus, I guess… this station is a full 20c cheaper than… Read more…

  • 47

    Yes: 47. I just counted them up today. And that’s the number of emails I’ve written and sent for one of my clients. Of course this is just a tiny sliver of the 347.3 billion emails that are sent each… Read more…

  • Instaspam

    I signed up for Instaspam… Oh… sorry: Insta—GRAM. My kids use it a lot. And if I wanted any hope of maintaining some sort of connection with my eldest daughter in London… I’d have to use it too. So… Installed… Read more…

  • Why aren’t I?

    If there’s one thing I’ve found that really starts to get me down in this freelance copywriter game…. It’s comparing myself to others. I’m picking you’ve probably experienced that at times too. I mean… It’s so easy to look at… Read more…

  • Be-de-be-de-be-de-be-de

    The mid-80s were a great time to be an 8 year old. TV shows… at least the ones I watched… were brimming with every sort of futuristic and sci-fi wonderfulness. And sitting on my parents’ lounge floor programming my Sega… Read more…