The conventional advice, when pursuing writing as a career, is not to give up your day job. Generally speaking, good advice! One still needs to be able to support themselves. Which I ignored, for several reasons. Firstly, the place where I was working had become untenable to me and I had to quit for myContinue reading “On putting in the effort vs doing the work”
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On weariness and knowing when to put down
I am tired. Today, I’m tired. Nothing seems good, and everything is hard, after several long weeks of everything seeming hard. I read a post by a writer this morning which observed that their difficulties writing might stem from the inability to be vulnerable … that releasing the numbness to feel emotion while writing, andContinue reading “On weariness and knowing when to put down”
On ‘putting it off’ and the value of timing
Last week I blogged about the hidden negatives of the ‘do it now’ narrative. After I wrote it, I continued contemplating the subject and realised — well, it’s not totally a one-sided concept. Like I said in the other post, the reason ‘do it now’ is such a common thing is precisely because the pointContinue reading “On ‘putting it off’ and the value of timing”
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