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These are not my highest-paying stories but they are some of my favourites.
Getting back into the swing of things after a long hiatus
After a long ‘break’, I have time to set my sights on Medium again.
In my real-world life there hasn’t been much left over to play with during the last few months — despite how apparently everyone can somehow find extra time to generate a third side hustle.
I don’t buy that, to be honest. Life gets in the way. Especially when, like in my case, what you do during the day saps the life out of you.
But hey, I have time now.
And I was making money on this site before when I had taken the plunge into freelancing…
Getting back into the habit of writing after a long break can lead to the cliche of writer’s block or what I like to call ‘creative paralysis.’
The difference between the two (by my definition anyway) is that with the first, your mind is blank with no new ideas or ways to get around writing obstacles; the second (which I tend to have more) is not that you don’t have ideas, but that you actually can’t get yourself to put them down anywhere. Your muscle memory is gone. I have forgotten how to write and how I made a living from it for six years.
