In a world that screams ‘Just Do It!’, inaction has a bad reputation. But sometimes, strategic inaction is exactly what the situation demands – and much more productive in the long run than the rush to do something, anything. In this week’s conversation I talk to Jinny Uppal about how…
‘I came to writing really late. I was told I couldn’t write… I had no first degree. I came to learning at 40 plus with an idea that I couldn’t write, but I still loved learning. So it’s been a total joy. It’s like, wow, you can do that too,…
‘Ask yourself continually: is this boring me?… Because if you’re bored writing it, there is no chance that anybody is going to want to read it.’ Former Enterprise Editor of the Sunday Times, Rachel Bridge cheerfully admits that she has the classic journalistic characteristics: a short attention span and incurable…
‘ I think about writing like that, you make your different-sized stones and bricks, and then you put them in the wall. And then slowly you start to mortar round them .
In this very personal episode I talk about what I’ve learned about fear when it comes to writing a book (or indeed, pretty much anything that matters).
