Good paper makes careful painters. A cheap book you have promised to fill, badly if needed, is where your colour actually gets better.

Every week someone asks for a quicker loaf. There is one, and it tastes of hurry. Here is what time actually does to bread, and how to fit it around a working week.

I took the zoom off my camera in January and did not put it back. Fewer choices made better pictures, and a slower walk made braver ones.

The draft you are afraid to write is the one you need. A short case for terrible first pages, and a fifteen-minute exercise to get one done tonight.

Calm pages are not empty pages. They are pages where every gap and size was decided once and kept. Here are the four decisions I make before anything else.

Most makers know roughly what they should charge. The hard part is the moment you have to say it. A script, a pause and a little practice make it much easier.