Some days, I just don’t feel like writing. I don’t have anything sexy or interesting to say, and my creative Muse has vanished. In the quest to write every day, there are always going to be days where I’m completely dry.

Benjamin Franklin said “Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing”. How does this marry with the well-known admonition to writers that we should get at least a paragraph or 100-words down each day? They don’t have to be Shakespeare’s sonnets, we’re assured, nor up there with the works of Kierkegaard, but just sitting down for 15 minutes or so and allowing words to just drip onto a page may just be enough to let…