WRITING IN ISOLATION
ANUJA CHAUHAN
Self-isolation is my natural state. I was an early believer in JOMO (the joy of missing out) and I love being alone with my thoughts. As a writer, I alternate between two states, writing and lying fallow. Fallow times are more social, when you go out into the larger world and mingle with other folk to ‘gather life’, as Vikram Seth once said—and writing times are when you hunker down in your cave and hammer away with all your heart and soul. Both phases are equally important
