How do you continue writing?

Illustration by Eline Van Dam

We need your voice now more than ever. Your ideas. Your thoughts. We need work to do, to have our voices heard. But how to do it when you feel helpless? Or so enraged you’re boiling? Or horrified to the state of blankness? I feel the same right now, and yet I know I must write. Here is how I do it.

There are three crucial things that allow me to concentrate and crank out words daily:

1. TIME.

Unless there is a chunk of at least uninterrupted 4 hours, it’s highly...