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    THE Write BALANCE

    Jul 01, 2021 5 minutes

    Last month we looked at the issues around transitioning from writing in lockdown to juggling your writing life as the world opens up and opportunities beckon to get out there and widen your everyday experiences in a way that hasn’t been possible since early 2020.

    This month, with a weather eye on the fact that Covid’s continual presence may yet alter our plans and change the possibilities available to us, we’re going to explore building on your lockdown writing practices and rediscovering some of the creative joys that had to be foregone in lockdown.

    Keep the good habits

    Many of us found that the enforced solitariness of lockdown was conducive to developing good creative habits. With the world at bay, a lot of life’s white noise was turned off and without the stresses of office life, socialising and commuting, we had time and space not just to write, but to process

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