"That's not very sexy, is it?"

or "the pram in the hall" effect

In a recent coaching session, a writer was talking through how they had recently had to find work to pay the bills and that they were worried their writing would now suffer as a result.

“I mean, how do you find the time to write when you also have a job?” they asked.

I took a beat before answering, even though to be honest I wanted to groan. Obviously it…