Bobster Blog

Criticism is valuable—no work is ever perfect. But its usefulness depends entirely on its quality. Poor criticism often says more about the ...

What’s the point of playing a charade all the time? It smothers the life inside. If someone sees the weaknesses and failings of me, it doesn...

Initially, feedback from the run-through described the pitch as “mostly noise” with potential but in need of some work. However, during the ...

These days, I find myself needing to trim my nose and ears, and my teeth haven't lasted; I'm currently missing three molars, and it ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

If you are not trying to appease anyone; if you are not trying to appeal to a market demographic; and you don’t need anything: watch out, yo...

Someone was asking me about the constitutional settlement in the UK, and I had to correct myself fives times by saying “the monarch” instead...

Listening to classical music on headphones is a hack for me when I need to concentrate on one task for a sustained period of time. I think i...

To be ultra-confident you can either be a deranged narcissist or you can be yourself completely. The former is fragile, needing lies and sel...

I tried work once, but I prefer cake, selfies and sunsets. Your mental state affects your physicality. It’s also true the other way round. A...