How I evolved as a writer by writing one blog post every week for 10 years

If you did a double take when you read this headline then that’s OK: so did I. I can’t quite believe it, but today I’ve reached an important milestone.

When I started this blog in August 2010, it was a bit of a leap in the dark. I had no idea where it would go.

Back then, my website was a place to publish photographs and diaries from my travels. I wanted to write more, but I wasn’t sure what I wanted to write. And I was publishing into a void: apart from kind-hearted friends and family, I didn’t...