Hang on a minute! What happened to January? I’ve had a productive and tiring month, but almost none of that productivity has gone towards my current writing project. Finding a balance continues to elude me! January 31, 2022 Hot Topic For a moment there, I was about to open this post by talking about procrastination, but then I realised that wasn’t necessarily my problem. Well, that’s not entirely true. I am prone to procrastination as much as anyone else, however, when I procrastinate it’s normally to work on something other than the thing I desperately want to work on. I…
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