Taming the Fear That Lurks Behind “I Haven’t Got Time to Write”

Nina Jervis
4 min readJan 27, 2021
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Thinking about writing can feel a bit like thinking about that phone call you keep saying you’ll make.

You play the conversation out in your mind, and the person you’re calling turns out to be in an awkward mood, and they complain about everything, and they ask you questions you’re not sure how to answer, and the conversation takes a lot longer than you…

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Nina Jervis

Writer and professional empathiser (not necessarily in that order).