Sometimes, when you’re writing…

I remember learning how when you’re putting together a poster, the ‘clear space’ around the words and images can be as important as the message.

Sometimes, when you’re writing, it can be like that, too.

Not so much in terms of what you put on the page, but in the pauses between putting words on the page.

“Er, waddya mean?” you may say.

What I mean is that sometimes I may write a section of a book, whether a chapter or a sequence of chapters (or even, in fact, a whole book) and then press paus...