It takes discipline
Have you heard of NaNoWriMo? It’s National Novel Writing Month, and it usually happens in November. NaNoWriMo is a virtual writing group: you sign up … Read more
Have you heard of NaNoWriMo? It’s National Novel Writing Month, and it usually happens in November. NaNoWriMo is a virtual writing group: you sign up … Read more
I was recently tagged in a post by Paige Brown over at From The Lab Bench to answer a few questions for her on science … Read more
My sister recently asked me if there were any books I’d recommend to a friend of hers who was moving to Inuvik. Books about the … Read more
In a previous post, I mentioned a Guardian article that deemed nature writing little more than “bourgeois escapism” that romanticized the natural world. It’s made me … Read more
In early November I had an email from Kelly, an environmental science student finishing her MSc. She’s at a crossroads, with loads of questions about … Read more
When I was a kid I played ‘newspaper reporter’. I’d drag my dad’s heavy typewriter out of the closet, roll in a sheet of scrap … Read more
This week my first popular science article in about 6 years was published in Outpost Magazine. It felt good to be science writing again – … Read more
Lots of people talk about how they’d just like a bit of peace and quiet, but what do they really mean? And why is it … Read more