When I came clean about how much I dislike the actual writing part of being a writer I had no idea how much this would resonate with others, but empathetic emails arrived in droves.
It seems I’m not alone. As Elizabeth Bailey said: ‘The longer I go on, the worse it gets, frankly. You begin to think you have dried up with nothing more to say. I am currently going through this; trying to get back into the WIP and failing majestically. In fact, if failure to write was a praiseworthy thing, I’d be carrying off a trophy right now.’