Writing Magazine

Rebecca Schiller

Rebecca Schiller’s plan was to write her memoir, Earthed, steadily over the first six months of 2020 but life on a smallholding, lockdown and a diagnosis of ADHD meant her plans had to change.

‘My natural process is to spend a lot of time thinking, procrastinating, researching and concentrating before writing most of a book in an intense burst during the six weeks before the deadline,’ she says. ‘For this one I’d organised everything in order to be able to do three days

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