Being a writer doesn’t give me the right to pass judgement on people or situations. The most I can do is give an opinion but unfortunately depending on the reach of my audience my opinion could prove too influential for its own good.
There’s no telling who or what may come into contact with my opinion [...]
Posted by BlackMan at 23:59:39 on July 19th, 2008 in Writing
No Comments »I have just reached an important milestone in the history of this BMT Blog! June 30 officially marked the half year point since starting on January 1, 2008 with the intention to write at least one story per day in this blog. So far this has been the case.
Occasionally I fall behind but I do [...]
Posted by BlackMan at 23:59:00 on July 9th, 2008 in Writing
No Comments »There are times when I am incapable of writing about particular subjects. It’s not that I don’t have any idea: it’s usually more the case I’ve got too many for that particular topic.
Usually when I get in that frame of mind I don’t write because writing comes naturally to me and when I sit down [...]
Posted by BlackMan at 13:59:48 on May 24th, 2008 in Writing
No Comments »I now have quite a few of my family and friends reading this blog on a regular basis and they guide me on some of the topics and issues I should cover.
This is obviously a good situation to be in but it also brings a few ‘challenges’ that have to be considered with each character [...]
Posted by BlackMan at 08:00:24 on April 28th, 2008 in Writing
No Comments »For the first time in many moons I had reasons to embark on some scriptwriting today. My main mentee and I decided to start work on his script which needed revision and I assigned myself the task of doing it.
As the opportunity presented itself I took the trouble to show him a collection of my [...]
Posted by BlackMan at 22:00:15 on February 8th, 2008 in Writing
No Comments »I have had to explain to a few people why we have changed the title of this site to BADDAB from BlackMag. The easy answer is that ever since we discovered that using the name BlackMag has prevented us from growing we have thought of how to remedy that situation.
The thing is BlackMag is also [...]
Posted by BlackMan at 22:00:52 on February 4th, 2008 in Writing
No Comments »Several people have asked why we have changed the title of this blog from BlackMan Time to simply BMT. I guess the simple answer to that is that BMT lends itself to greater interpretation and probably encourages a wider acceptance among all who stumbles onto the site!
I acknowledge BlackMan Time is a very strong socio-political [...]
Posted by BlackMan at 22:00:30 on February 3rd, 2008 in Writing
No Comments »What is actually driving me forward to produce a piece of thought everyday in this BlackMan Time blog is the sceptical attitude I encountered from an upper-class twit work colleague. We had been talking about the company’s website and how it was a shame that the blog was not added to on a daily basis.
In [...]
Posted by BlackMan at 08:00:13 on August 24th, 2007 in Writing
No Comments »My friend Alison who now lives in Morocco considers my daily thoughts in this blog a disciplined thing and very un 21st century like! I think she admires the dedication it takes to sustain an endeavour such as this but feel that it’s “like something from the 18th century”, which she adds is “a good [...]
Posted by BlackMan at 11:48:03 on August 15th, 2007 in Writing
No Comments »Discipline is one of the key traits that anyone who desire to be a writer needs to have if they are to succeed in this business. This is especially true if you’re attempting to write a substantial project which requires perseverance as well as continuous slog in order to complete it.
Typical examples of this would [...]
Posted by BlackMan at 08:00:28 on July 25th, 2007 in Writing
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