Beating the BLOCK

I used to believe that writer’s block didn’t exist.

I started out my writing career when I was a full-time teacher, head of year and at times, interim head of department at a boarding school, a job that required me to be at school for a minimum of 46 hours a week and many weekends, plus marking and planning time at home. For the first two years before my first book hit the shops I did all of this and also wrote three manuscripts per