Last year I started writing a book. I did the research, I did the planning, I dreamed up the characters and gave some thought to the themes and what I wanted to say. I started to write. I realised I hadn’t planned as well as I thought, and that the power dynamic between the two leads wasn’t what I wanted. I re-thought, re-wrote. I shared some early chapters with my writing group, who gave positive feedback. Great. I wrote on.

It was a struggle, but who said writing was easy? The struggle is p...