The Business of Blockheads

Why I hated writing about writing, and how I learned to like it again

Image: Kept in the Dark by John Everett Millais and Joseph Swain (1882)/Birmingham Museums Trust

A chef starting a blog can show off their recipes and photos of the food. A visual artist can write about and show their work. But a writer writing about writing… it doesn’t read right.

I don’t know when I started hating writing about writing. If I were to guess, it would…