SJ Bradley
@bradleybooks.bsky.social
Short story writer, novelist, audio playwright. Maps of Imaginary Towns,The Netflix Reviewer (Substack), Uneasy Listening (podcast). PGcert Teaching Creative Writing (Cambridge), K Blundell Trust Award. linktr.ee/bradleybooks From Wakefield, now NI
The cake-eating part of me says: sure, go ahead, there's plenty of time to make a cake again before December; The sensible part of me says: but Bradley, you can't keep on making Christmas cakes, and then eating them - there'll be none left for Christmas
Current mood: pondering whether it would be Wrong of me to start eating the Christmas cake that I made at the weekend
Thinking of starting to buy all my writing gear from a corporate supply store. 2000 index cards for £73.49 (£88.19 including VAT.) Get a huge wipe-clean whiteboard for the office and some markers while I'm at it. Start doing all my writing in a hard hat and hi-vis with FIRE MARSHAL on the back
shout out to the older couple enjoying a Train Picnic on the Belfast-Bangor line this afternoon
I'm not on here much at the moment for looking after my brain reasons. But I am also looking for freelance work! So if anybody needs proofreading, editorial services - including developmental editing - creative writing mentoring or anything adjacent thereof, I am available! stefmowords[at]gmail.com
Other Services | Stefan Mohamed
Stefan Mohamed's creative writing services, from professional editing and proofreading to lecturing and tutoring.
stefmo.co.uk
Regret to inform that I watched the first twenty minutes of The Sheep Detectives yesterday and it is NOT as good as I thought it was going to be
Good lord, accidentally caught a snippet of Trump rambling on about the 'Russia hoax', the 'Ukraine hoax', and 'super intelligence'. If your Nan started talking like this, you'd have to see about getting her put in a home
Right , I'm poorly and in need of something undemanding and salacious to read. What's the best celebrity memoir to download?
so annoying having to Do Tasks on a day I had set aside for productivity-free pottering
Northern Ireland really should be more well-known for its world-leading bureaucracy. Everything is paper-based here. To get my driving license changed, I had to complete a four page form from the Post Office, which was then returned to me because I'd missed ticking one single box:
Hilarious to me that celebrities have multiple phones: one for friends, one for acquaintances, one for work. If I was incredibly wealthy and successful, I would have no phones. Upon making my first million, I would simply yeet my phone into the sea, Rebekah Vardy style
Wow, I've never heard from Sky Broadband so often as I have after deciding to switch to another provider. If they'd only been this responsive when I'd been trying to get them to sort out my broadband speed
Nobody checks when you fill in an online form to sign up for online shopping? Ask me how I know? My supermarket of choice just sent an apologetic email offering a refund to one "Sir Bradley"
Funny to see Ed Sheeran who, in his apparent quest to be the most beigest and inoffensive person alive, has offended everybody news.sky.com/story/suppor...
Support artists pull out of Ed Sheeran tour over Macklemore's departure
Irish musician Aaron Rowe, folk group Beoga, Danish pop band Lukas Graham and singer-songwriter Finneas have pulled out of Ed Sheeran's tour, citing their support for Palestine.
news.sky.com
I can't believe that AI, a technology that until six months ago didn't even know how many 'R's there were in the word 'Strawberry', is now on track to maybe kill us all within the next ten years
Every time I've seen or communicated with a Boomer lately, they've asked me to buy them a packet of ham on my way to meet them. From this, I've concluded that all Boomers are being funded by Big Ham
Shout out to the guy at work who keeps replying to my emails to point out very minor, unimportant typos: where were YOU when I was proofreading my own book two years ago
My folks live in Wakefield, which is now a pretty much 100% Reform council. They mentioned that fairly recently, within the last 2-3 weeks, the bin men have stopped taking the bins where they live
Mum rings me at 8.30 in the morning. Then texts, "Can you phone me, it's urgent." She wanted to know whether I wanted a tablecloth she bought on holiday in 1992.
You could buy this if you like a thriller. I wrote it myself and everything.
Can't believe there are so many layers of security to looking up how many Nectar points you've got. I feel almost certain that I've almost got enough to buy a pack of chewing gum but there's no way to find out
Women's style advice all says "every woman needs a classic, crisp, white shirt" yet when I wear one, I just look like a bloody waiter
You Might Have Missed: "Pringles" TV. A few shows that, once you start watching, you just can't stop. My latest on The Netflix Reviewer thenetflixreviewer.substack.com/p/you-might-...
You might have missed: “Pringles” TV
Once you start watching these shows, you can’t stop
thenetflixreviewer.substack.com
Not to be fun-free, but I hope they make the ban on disposable barbecues permanent. Horrible, anti-social, litter-causing, injury-causing things