Get a Haircut and Get a Real Job? Confucious would have told you to get a job! Image via Wikipedia As a writer and artist there have always been times when money is a rare sight so is is quite common to meet creative people in a range of professions. Some have abandoned their creative [...]

Still here just pausing New Photography and Poetry! Hello internet people, have been a bit slow with the updates to the site recently but this is due to the amount of new content I have added to the site. The new series “Then I Passed” has four of the ten poems and photographs online now. [...]

The Personal and the ImpersonalAs a special treat for my hungry blog I decided to discuss ‘who’ is speaking within a poem or piece of art work. The danger for artists and writers is that people usually assume that the author is the one speaking. While this may be true in some cases, mediums like [...]

New Poetry and Photography Series SuccessJust a quick post to say thank you to all of you for supporting the new poetry and photography series by KJ Halliday. It has been a slow process but I think the results have been great with the first poem jumping straight into the top ten on the site. [...]

A Painting in ProgressAs you know I mostly write poetry and work on photography. However, I also do some paintings here and there which is more out of interest than for an actual skill in the process I have had this painting finished for a while I just kept thinking whether to add to it [...]

The Importance of ‘Shape’ in PoetryPoet on the Page or Off? As a ‘poet on the page’ I differ a little from spoken word and other types of performing poets. My concentration is not just on words but also the look and feel of the poem when it is written out and published. This is [...]

Final Art Work in the Elemental SeriesI am happy to present my latest art work on kjwriteleft.com and ‘KJ Takes a Blog’ as it is the final piece in the Elemental series main photos. It is a combination of all the elements with an exaggerated style. I wanted to complete these main photographs with something [...]

Some Tips for Editing Your Own Writing The joys of editing. Image by fernanc via Flickr 4 Steps To Improve The Editing Of Your Own Writing by Kevin Sinclair This article is based on the assumption that you are using a word processing program of some kind in a Windows environment. If you are not [...]