#14: Roller Coasters & Eclipses

This Week: Emotional whiplash • The free dumbphone living inside your iPhone for focus and calm • Standing against penny-pinching businesses • My Favourite Finds • The Darkroom Eclipse of the Heart When the next wave hit, I thought in earnest: am I going to drown?...

#13: Holidays & Remembering Too Much

This Week: The medicine of a holiday • The creative cost of remembering too much and how to let go • Lessons from another three months of writing Jamie’s Journal • My Favourite Finds • The Darkroom Not My Problem I didn’t realise my body was a blabbermouth, but...

#12: Future Forgetting & Clowning

Hey – Jamie here. When we think about memory, we usually think about trying to remember things from the past – recalling names, facts, and figures. But forgetting to do things we planned makes up the majority of what we forget. These two types are called retrospective...

#11: Nine Funny Filters & A Funeral

Hey – Jamie here. It’s been a dislocating fortnight. By popular demand, find your guide to writing satire inside. The guide builds on the workshop I attended with the ex-head writer of The Onion. Use it to sharpen your comedy and charisma. Today is also...

#10: Fixing Your Forgetting & Brighton Improv

Hey – Jamie here. You never know who’s in the crowd – and at the Brighton Fringe, that turned out to matter quite a lot. Brighton Fringe is Brighton’s answer to the Edinburgh Fringe. My improv troupe made our debut there last weekend, performing to...