tried & tested
Aug 21, 2020
4 minutes
BY LIESL ROBERTSON
Writing doesn’t come easily to me. I used to envy colleagues who could sit down at their computer, open a blank page on Word, start tapping away and then hand in a completed article later that same day. No mess, no fuss.
I’ve since realised that those people are in the minority. I’m a big ol’ cliché, really. I research endlessly. I ponder. I prepare. I agonise. I get distracted by emails. I wait for the muse to strike. And then, eventually, I churn it all out in one slightly panicked, feverish burst. It usually turns out okay, but, God, it’s draining.
There is a lot of procrastination, a big chunk of self-doubt and a light dusting of self-loathing, narrated. Maybe you should get a snack.’
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