The world is a fucking mess. I know. Stating the obvious. But it is. Watch the news. Watch the dead and gassed in Syria. Watch the people – me included – who say the use of chemical weapons crossed a moral line. I mean, shoot people – hell, that’s fucking […]
Author: Matt Haig
WRITERS ARE STUPID
Writers are stupid. Writers are stupid because they do the most depressing job in the world. Writers are stupid because they shorten their lives by sitting down all day and eating toast and smoking and writing depressing things. Writers are stupid because they only get 0.1 per cent of royalties. […]
Don’t Become A Writer If…
1. You hate being entered for races that you always lose. 2. You like having a clue about what is going on with your career. 3. You like to know, to the nearest ten thousand pounds, how much money you will earn in a year. 4. You like having a […]
Why I Love America
Britain has a strange relationship with America. It is like that of a man who married a woman, and then the woman divorced him way back in 1776, and now said woman – let’s call her Liberty – has gone on to better things. She has got rich, glamorous and […]
SOME FUCKING WRITING TIPS
This is the first blog I’ve written since writing blogs for the respectable charity Booktrust. Booktrust gave me no rules for writing blogs, except that they said I couldn’t swear. So after six months of non-swearing I have been bursting to fucking swear. I really fucking have. I just need […]