He writes ona broad range of grooming and skincare products from bargain to prestige whilst touching on hair removal, tanning (obviously) and even the hazy territory of men’s makeup. Gianni C Writing things down in a notebook means that you don't need to remember everything all at once. When your head is empty again there is more space for new ideas to come in. Be a channel of creativity: not a pond. 3. Writing a book? Imagine you've already finished it!

The thing is just to get on with it! I don't always start at the beginning either. I usually start something near the beginning of the middle. Usually I just jump in at a bit I like the look of. Wherever you start, the important thing is to take a deep breath and let go. Since January 2012, The Pampered Prince by Andy, a facialistand skincare expert, is one of the leading authorities online when it comes to looking after your skin. Again, taking a unisex approach to skincare, Andy targets brands you might not have heard of before, particularly from within the professional beauty and skincare industry. Some advice: dogs and cats are really good at listening. Hamsters get bored easily.) 6. The second idea. If you are trying to think of an idea for your writing, it's not always the first thing that comes into your head that's best. Just because it's an answer and it fits, doesn't mean it's the best answer. This isn't maths, it's art!

Boy

Over time, I look at every single sentence and try and make them better. Does the story do what I want it to? Is it the best I can possibly do? How can I change it? How can I improve it? 10. Don't be afraid. I had a favourite author and book when I was little. It was called What Do People Do All Day? by a brilliant American author and illustrator called Richard Scarry. His drawings in this particular book were so full of crazy and very funny things that sometimes I would spend hours gazing at one picture just to make sure I hadn't missed something. In the same way, I love to fill my illustrations with loads of odd stuff so that there is always something new to notice and hopefully raise a smile. 4. Don't worry about being rubbish – just aim to do your best! I learnt so much by seeing how other artists made their drawings, and the best way to do that, I discovered, was to try to draw like them. Don't tell my publishers, but I hereby encourage all young illustrators to copy drawings of Boyface as often as they want! 3. Remember what excited you about the drawings you loved when you were little.

Try to draw and design your own birthday cards and Christmas cards for your friends and family. You won't believe how much happiness a hand drawn card can bring someone until you try it. Doing this on a regular basis when I was at school helped me to be less worried about showing my work to people. It will also save you a good deal of your cash in those awful card shops! 7. See where a line takes you. There comes a point in a book when I have the idea, I know what sort of thing it's going to be and I've done a little bit of planning. What do I do next? Lee Kynaston has been blogging since April 2009 and is one of the very first men’s grooming bloggers around. His posts on The Grooming Guru are perfectly bite sized, giving the latest updates and info on products purely for guys including fragrance, skin care and shaving.Some friends of mine taught me a useful phrase once: "Take the second bus." What it means is: you should listen to the second idea that comes into your head, rather than just going with the first thing all the time. I challenge you to find something that Ged doesn’t write about. From style to fashion; grooming to gadgets – he has it all. The Ged Labhas been going since 2011 and is moving from strength to strength. Ged’s articles are informative, easy to read and he also hosts some great giveaways.

Keep thinking. Keep listening. Maybe you'll come up with something different. Sometimes, if you're really clever, you might be able to combine the ideas together to give them strength and depth. For example: I need a new villain for my Boyface books. How about a bully? Or a weird boy? A robber? A clown – no, I know – he's a weird clown boy! 7. Dive straight in! The biggest obstacle I have to my writing is fear: fear that it won't be good enough or that I won't be able to do it.Photographer Phil Polglaze’s trajectory into the hidden life of ‘cottages’ is a somewhat unexpected one. In 1974, he was working as a geography teacher at a South London school. Already a keen amateur photographer, he used the school’s darkroom to teach himself how to print pictures. The London borough of Southwark then employed him as a photographer through the 1980s and ’90s. But in 1979, Polglaze was approached by a lawyer friend who needed an unusual set of pictures taken.