“Can You Twist is South Africa’s first online reality show featuring six of the country’s hottest young female storytellers … and your votes. Six weeks, six women, six twists and one ultimate winner!” How could I resist? How could anyone? To be honest, though, it wasn’t the online reality-show line that got me. Nor being […]
Bridget McNulty
Bridget McNulty is a writer, content strategist and creative director. She is the editor of Sweet Life diabetes lifestyle magazine (www.sweetlifemag.co.za) and the co-founder of Now Novel online novel-writing course www.nownovel.com.
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The 4-Hour Work Week
Sound like a dream? Nope, it’s a book by Timothy Ferriss. And a pretty inspiring one at that. “Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich” it promises. I know what you’re thinking — just another cheesy motivational book. But this one’s a little different. One of my favourite, cheesy, motivational business books, […]
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Cape Town winter: it’s not all bad
Yip, I’m back. After a few months of scribbling away at my second novel, I’ve decided to emerge from my shell and scribble a bit on Thought Leader instead. But only twice a week — Mondays and Fridays. This is the new, streamlined me. Before I begin (again), though, I’d like to mention a few […]
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A brief hiatus
So here’s the thing — novel–writing takes up quite a lot of time. And while I do love writing blog posts, when I’m spending all morning with my head in a new book and all afternoon freelancing to make enough money to keep me in tea and toast, it’s quite tricky to comment on my […]
Posted inNews/Politics
Is anybody advising our president?
I don’t pretend to know anything about politics. In fact, I generally avoid it like the plague, leaving it to those who are passionate about it to comment on the folly of politicians. But I can’t help wondering what on earth is going on in Thabo Mbeki’s head. Perhaps someone can explain his point of […]
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The role of the blogger
Now here’s something I’d like to hash out a bit. What is the role of the blogger? There are enough blogs out there writing about intensely personal day-to-day stuff to suggest that the role of the blog is nothing more than an online Dear Diary. Then there are political blogs, commenting on and making observations […]
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A braai with my chommies
I’ve often driven past communal braaiing spots and wondered what kind of a person goes to all the effort of transporting braai paraphernalia to a public spot. Yesterday I found out. We had a braai in Tokai Forest and it was simply delightful. Open space, lots of trees and dappled sunlight, logs to sit on […]
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Are you busy on Sunday?
If not (and if you’re in Cape Town), why not come along to the Ubuntu-Tibet Freedom Day Event? There’s a full day’s programme, but it all begins with a meditation on top of Table Mountain, followed by a ceremony at St George’s Cathedral at 11.30am and a peace walk. They’re having a free Peace Concert […]
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New York, New York, here I come!
Uh huh. I just signed an international book deal with St Martin’s Publishers in New York (Fifth Avenue, nogal!) Strange Nervous Laughter will be published in the USA next year! I am so excited! St Martin’s (http://us.macmillan.com/SMP.aspx) is apparently quite a big deal… They publish Jeffrey Archer. And Augusten Burroughs. That’s enough of a big […]
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Innovative inspiration (aka websites)
Just three today, but they’re all winners, as far as I’m concerned. This is kind of the continuation of my tapping into the design vein on the internet and seeing what I can find. There is a wealth of extraordinary stuff out there! So here are three whimsical Friday offerings: Sfgirlbybay (http://sfgirlbybay.blogspot.com/). At first, it […]
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This is how you Write a Novel
And by you I mean “I”, of course. 1. You carry around a notebook and scribble down anything interesting/funny/strange that people say, as well as weird signs, strange sights and anything else pilferable from real life. 2. You type them up in a nice clean Word document. 3. You spend some time trying to figure […]
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The Will Ferrell Fan Club
I used to find Will Ferrell extremely irritating. All that posturing, those dumb voices, that enforced stupidity. But then I watched Stranger than Fiction, which immediately zoomed to one of my top three favourite movies of all time (and which was on M-Net last night, if anyone happened to see it). Will Ferrell in a […]