Break On Through

I am very conscious that this blog has not been especially active in recent months; the daft notion of a regular newsletter predictably fell by the wayside, but there have also been fewer random rants, let alone anything more substantive. The main explanation is that I have actually managed to make some substantial progress with writing a book, finally feeling as if I can actually do this and it’s worth doing, after years in which such feelings of self-belief have been fleeting at best. This in turn means that writing blog posts starts to feel more like a distraction from proper work, rather than giving me the minor boost that at least I’m writing something, and so the criteria for deciding whether it’s worth scribbling something quickly about a topic have shifted. My hope is that anyone who visits here regularly will feel sufficiently interested in the prospect of a longer-form piece from me in due course, or even vaguely invested in my general mental well-being, to excuse this.…

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