Category: Wonderings

• March 22, 2016

  When the Big Guys Shit On the Little Guys

  Instagram’s doing it, Twitter’s doing it – chronological timelines will soon be a thing of the past. Sure, we’ll get over it in like a week once all the folks in digital marketing have published their blogs and started tweeting about something else. But what about small businesses? All the illustrators, sculptors, tattoo artists, furniture…
• March 18, 2016

  Things We’ve Achieved Together

    We’ve counselled sadness, anger, overexcitement and scaredy-catness. We’ve listened to 40-line direct message rants. We’ve discussed comma splicing, malapropisms, over-adverbing and Fit Boys. We’ve got braver with pricing. We’ve stood up for our writing. We’ve learned how to spot and deal with dickheads. We’ve used our individual subject areas to help each other with scary new…
• March 17, 2016

  Welcome to Copywriting

  For those of you new to copywriting as a career, my copybuddies and I will be putting on a free Saturday talk this April. NO MORE SPACES LEFT I’M AFRAID Rather than a plain old introduction to copywriting, this is a welcome. In the spirit of #copywritersunite, we want to draw you into the fold with…
• March 15, 2016

  What The World Thinks of Copywriters

  Writers have historically been seen as a glamorous lot. Quite, quite mad but in possession of a certain louche allure. Copywriters, on the other hand, are cloaked not so much in mystery as general apathy. No one really cares who or what we are, even though they consume our pitiful offerings on the daily. I’m…
• March 10, 2016

  Firsts This Week

  I finished my first short story I entered my first short story competition I had my first virtual reality experience I backed my first Kickstarter I ate my first wasabi popcorn