The art of rest and recuperation when you are in darkness waiting for the light to return.

A term coined by Katherine May in her memoir ‘Wintering’.

I found something funny last Saturday morning. This was a big relief as my sense of humour had dried up in the past few weeks.

When I tell people that I’m an editor, there is often an awkward silence as they think about how they should reply. After all, Isn’t spotting and correcting typos a redundant job? We have all seen typos in the books we’ve read; and for many years now word processing software displays red lines underneath misspelled words or blue lines under ugly phrasing.

Thoughts about overcoming writer’s block.