Sometimes this meant making maps– other times it was focusing on the consequences, decades on, of a decision that I have just had someone make in the main narrative. My way of solving this was to focus on creating something, anything, as long as it contributed somehow. It took me a long time to write Fight and Be Right and there were several periods of quite severe writer’s block. But then projects do sometimes take on a life of their own. Preface to an updated second volume in the saga. When I picked up my laptop in spring 2008 and thought I know, I’ll write something about Lord Randolph Churchill, I had no idea that I would end up, 150,000 words and eight years later, typing a Syndicalist Pamphlet- The British Revolution
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