Quarantine writing

Petrarch rebuking Boccacio for his idleness (when there are so many books to be written), from a late 15th-century manuscript (Paris, Bibliothèque Mazarine, 3878)

The two most common sources of deferring or discontinuing a writing project are writer's block and distractions. In other words, two forms of siege, one inner, the other external.

Writing under …