I’ve started a few posts, but they’ve left me unenthusiastic so they remain unfinished and unsent. It’s not time I’ve lacked, but the necessary focus. My false starts have all wandered off into the deadly hinterlands of unoriginal political punditry.
I’ve been distracted by my upcoming policy role. Both in trying to learn as much as I can before it starts as well as by the unknown nature of what it will be like for me day to day.
For me to write well, I need to enjoy a certain level of calm and detachment that I just don’t feel at the moment.
Writers need to be observers, and self-absorption attenuates the power of observation.
I’ll be back to you as soon as possible with something I can be proud of.
For this reader, no explanation is necessary. I would rather have a very infrequent supply of good writing than a steady drumbeat of dreck.
Tom Pendergast expresses my thoughts well, with the addition that I am confident your new post will, in good time, enrich your writing.