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You need a thin and thick skin to write and promomote your work

Writing breakthroughs have no linear progression

My best stuff comes from beyond me

Balancing chaos and routine for creativity

30 years to find an audience (it took me)

Writers block - things I do to kill it

Other peoples stories are medicine

Do I regret dedicating a life to writing, thoughts and ideas?

Creativity is cart before the horse before the cliff

Life and death and writing

Taking a break from writing

Writing my new book with small-big thoughts (out today!)

Stuff learned from my first spoken word performance

In praise of reading not to learn

Thoughts on putting together my live show

Making something out of nothing

Productivity and creativity hate each other

The hidden door in rock bottom

The horror of time

Lessons from a hangover

Exploiting myself for ideas I'd never thought I'd publish

Courageous artists: be the first to say the thing

Best bits from 88 episodes of this podcast (some of them)

The exhaustion of acting normal in a weird world

Zero expecations allow creativity to happen

Smuggling your weirdness through years of the cult of sensible

A hundred bad ideas to write a single good one

The sum of our artistic influences... and our life

The endless daily creative defeats make me grumpy

We love to make meaning out of everything

I've got an inner waggy pissed off cat's tail and an outer waggy happy dog's tail

Balancing Sensible Self and Crazy Self (to pay bills and make art)

Your old ideas that never found an audience are the most important

Unexplained happiness

I know who I am and after all these years there's a victory in that

The duty to make art in a shit culture

Memes and culture

Thinking out loud has changed the way I write

Writing in 'beginner mode' and poetry as a baseline to find one's voice

A little about writing me new book, WORKING NINE LIVES

Finishing a book project and starting the next

Following your dreams

Making art for no audience

Selling out to myself

Creative breakthroughs by not giving a shit

Documenting the writing process for one of me videos

Walking to the supermarket in the no mans land between Christmas and New Years

Physical frailty and creating beyond oneself

Every creative breakthrough I've had across 40 years

One idea leads to the next

Sticking up poems around the streets and talking to myself

Shit podcast episode where I was out of ideas

Getting out of the way of yourself in creativity

Finding momentum to keep creating

Find out who you are and do it on purpose

Writing my way out of straightjackets and 2 other random ideas I had this week

Finding your voice in creativity with your actual voice

Catching the emotional truth of what I'm writing about

Starsigns and creativity - skip this if starsigns ain't your thing!

Nows the time to create in a world distracted by politics

Creative breakthroughs

Interview with Tommy Attwood, writer/illustrator

How I've been able to pay the rent writing poetry

Honouring my 8 year old self's decisions to make books

Have faith in shit ideas: from 200 views of a poem, to half a million (with the same poem)

Limiting myself creatively to free myself creatively

I often make my brain to ask itself: what would legs do?

Making art while working a full time job: art before the horse

Half baked ideas I've been playing with

Creatives need breaks to be improve

Great art lets you see the world for what it is

Road Trip to free up creativity

Charles Bukowski, poet, and what I've learned from him

Making stuff from mess and it's easier than ever to be an individual

Waking life runs on dream logic more than we probably care to admit

Cats and creativity

Self censoring making art

Dressing my words in pyjamas by handwriting

Reaching the edge of culture and creating my own world

Poems that shake me alive

"UM": my little (big) book I've made that's sort of a self help for creatives

I applied for 2500 jobs with the stupidest resume

Balancing darkness and light in poetry

Searching for truth and wisdom in unlikely places

Adulting in a creative life

Creativity in trying-not-trying

The exhaustion of acting normal in a weird world

The past is a foreign country

Self publishing isn't a dirty word

Second week off writing thoughts

Creative burnout - relaxing is hard work

Editing, writing and painting my new book CONFETTI TORNADO

Comedians tell the truth more than poets these days

Earning years of life to earn poetry

Ideas I had this week that didn't quite work

Finding ideas/wisdom/truth outside the popular opinion of the crowd

The Wizard Of Oz and The Never Ending Story are documentaries

11 poems, artists & places that have greatly inspired me

Spirits (and other random weekly stuff while walking around talking shit into my phone)

I wrote this episode by walking