1. Procrastination is part of the process

Or: Why the usual creative advice irks me.

I’ve been putting this off. On a phone call six months ago, my friend J asked me when I was going to start a Substack. I thought of her prolific entries, of all the pages she’d shared over the years.

“I don’t have that many words,” I’d replied.

And it’s true. I often feel like I’m fighting to get enough words down on the page for the book I’m supposed to …