Then you can start pondering, ‘What am I really trying to say?’ ‘What is the point of this piece of journalism, or speech, or book, or play, or pamphlet, or email?’ Think up different approaches, compare them, begin gathering key facts and research — it never does any harm to have a few quotes! And — in case you haven’t realised this yet — recognise that all this time you will be feeding your unconscious and it will be chewing everything over the moment you stop working.
