Writers can’t holiday
I went from writing 3 articles every week to hitting a writer’s block. About two weeks back I took a break from writing. I was headed home for the holidays and wanted to take it a bit easy. Sounds innocent enough right? I thought the same.
I came back after my break having lots to write about but suddenly feeling under confident about my ability to articulate what I was thinking. In a week imposter syndrome had kicked in. Wow.
I realised that while writing is a skill but more than that, it was a habit I’d developed. It’s not that suddenly I couldn’t string two sentences together or my vocabulary became bad but I was simply out of touch. The whole process of thinking of an idea, penning it down and publishing it seemed daunting all of a sudden. I was procrastinating writing so much that over the weekend, I cleaned by whole house!
Was this the first time something like this was happening? Or were there other habits that had passed me by without me even realising it. Ironically enough, I picked up the book Atomic Habits only last week.
This article, I guess is an attempt to end this bad juju. Think of it like a public journal - there to hold me accountable incase I don’t go back. So badger me incase you don’t hear from me soon okay?