Kathryn Heyman explained her difficulties with writing novels as a way to engage with politics: "it's not kicking down a door and standing with the workers, but it's all I've got".
This is a good way to get constructive criticism from someone other than your supervisor and, perhaps even more importantly, it makes you aware that you're not the only person facing difficulties with writing.
As a writing teacher whose method is to have students engage in personally and socially meaningful topics, and to write about these topics in full, drafted and revised essays, I am as concerned as anyone about students' difficulties with writing effective, clear prose.
You have difficulties with writing a letter.
Several participants described how their teachers did not believe them when they said they had difficulties with writing for example.
However, because of practical difficulties with writing (e.g. supine position, attached to intravenous lines) some patients gave verbal responses to the questions, which were recorded in the questionnaires by one of the study investigators.
Difficulty with written communication featured prominently (n = 19), with two studies reporting that illegible [ 51, 64] and five unclear/messy [ 34, 40, 41, 44, 55, 77, 82] prescriptions contributed to MAEs.
The talk may be a way of compensating for a difficulty with writing.
They are stereotypes for the most part, and the difficulty with writing about stereotypes is that they are one-dimensional, unchanging and therefore of limited use in the construction of narrative.
Franzen went on to describe his initial difficulty with writing from the perspective of characters who in real life he would fundamentally dislike, but emphasised that it was one of his most important tasks as a writer to do so, because it opened up opposing perspectives.
