When you write, there’s usually something you want to say. Answer the good old 5W+H at least. Poetry is pretty exploratory though. When you start, you have barely a vague sense on what you’re trying to achieve. You’re conveying emotion rather than meaning. Form matters a lot as well. A lot of creative writing looks like that. [...]

Poetry is a literary form in which language is used in a concentrated blend of sound and imagery to create an emotional response. ~ Levin (1962) Poetry is simple to define –  a poem is a poem because people consider it a poem. Simple. Easy to understand. Useless. When you are studying poetry in a [...]

The oldest joke online is that geeks have never seen a girl. Or that nice guys can’t get a girl. Variations of this story have been happening all my life, my fellow geeks tell similar stories and the internet is awash with rage comics saying the same thing. But this particular story happened last night, [...]

Image via Wikipedia I just got out of a project managment and personal productivity exam. Having studied for it for almost a few hours I noticed an over-arching theme in the material: Never-ever ever multitask. Only ever do one thing. Don’t you dare do more than one thing at a time! This also seems to [...]

Image via Wikipedia Some of you probably realise that I’m a bit of a steampunk and have been even since before I realised steampunk was what I was a fan of. Think I called it

Miss Boob, miss Boob with your shape so plump you excite and you annoy little babies, dear, are hungry so, and yet you only let men play. Like a peacock you display your warm soft charms, dear, are horrible nightmares of girls well endowed and women left behind cherrish the attention, dear, all I have [...]