Bobster Blog

The earth, once clad in winter's shroud, now wears the Easter cloak of spring's rebirth. From the darkness light reclaims its throne...

Once upon a time, I saw a thespian’s version of Iago and thought I could do it better than that. I then saw his Hamlet and thought I could d...

I’m currently living on the corners of a triangle between Colchester, Cambridge, and London. Being asked to write a poem in the afternoon a...

If one views one’s own life as a work of art, then “happy, happy, happy” would be lacking in depth, whereas the layered contrast of colours ...

Looking back at what I said I was going to do in past years, I typically allowed myself to be blown off course, and ended up doing something...

How long before Artificial Intelligence takes offence and demands to be called Authentic Intelligence? How does an AI confess its love? AI: ...

Today I was dancing in the rain on a deserted beach with some seagulls. It’s always a good idea to come alive before one dies. When I wa...

I think I have five main creative endeavours: writing, songwriting, singing, acting, art. A semi-creative set is finance with application de...

I’m an artist. The vast majority of artists (even some great ones) live very austere, under-appreciated lives. The small minority who have a...

The resources to improve oneself are all available online. Most people (including me) are bogged down with the distractions. I’ve got a lo...

I’m currently writing a horror short story about a haunted elevator, called Floor 49. As well as scary, it is also satirising big corporatio...

I had a dream where I thought I had a very good idea of establishing a coordinate system for each snooker ball, so that positions could be t...

I’ve been writing some poems as guides for when I am improvising lyrics for songs. The words sound a lot better when sung rather than when r...

Creating something great isn’t the same as temporary popularity, as the latter can be mere pumped up, generic mania – and not necessarily co...

I’ve had a barren spell for a while now where no music or lyrics were coming to me, until this week when I’ve suddenly written seven songs. ...

Over the years I have put in 10,000 hours of gazing out of the window. My mind meandered off path again and I wrote a comedy script about a ...

I can firmly state, without any equivocation, that I am very stupid. Anyway, these are my creativity projects for the new year: Publish nove...

A bed demon under my pillow forces my eyelids open at night so that I can doomscroll on Twitter. Problem solved? The thing that was botherin...

I’ve been working as a software engineer with domain knowledge in finance and trading. I can find it interesting, especially when I create s...

Any sequence of words should aspire to be a poetic turn of phrase. I am currently reading ten books, dipping into each depending on mood. I ...