I Thought that Being at Home More Would Help Me Write More

Instead, it did quite the opposite

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Yesterday, I published my first article on Medium in a whole month. In fact, I realize now that I’ve only published one article in total last month.

Prior to that, I was much more consistent.

I always had at least one draft that I was working on and I would always be actively thinking of topics that would make for a compelling piece. However, recently I’ve had a hard time bringing myself to sit down and write anything.

I’ve found it difficult to find the motivation to even want to write. And I honestly haven’t had the mental strength to event attempt to force myself to write.

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And so, I let the days go by until I rediscovered that desire again. I don’t know how or why it happened yesterday, but it just did.

Since the pandemic began, spending a majority of my days at home for the past several months has been quite an enlightening, yet extremely challenging, experience (as I imagine it’s been for pretty…