The priceless feeling of accomplishing something by yourself

Or how writing a book without a partner to support me was harder than I thought...

I’ve been answering questions about my book over on Instagram and one of the questions was someone asking if I enjoyed writing it. A simple question, you might think, but the answer is a long one because there were parts that I found really hard and there were times when I wanted to give up. The enjoyment came in the moments I was able to untangle a knotty problem or when my editors or writing friends said they loved a particular chapter I worked hard on and as I’ve said before I loved doing the interviews.

Writing a book really tested me. It felt like a battle of wills between the me who wanted to do a good job and the me who wanted to hide and sack it all in when it got hard. As I’ve written about before I have ADHD – but don’t get on with the ADHD meds and so don’t take them – and having ADHD made working on such a huge project really difficult which is one of the reasons I’m so proud of myself.