I’ve spent the better part of last week and this week sneezing, sniffling and sick from the flu. 

And while I’m finally looking at the tail end of my misery at this moment, I am struck by how one single thing made my ordeal a thousand times worse.

There is one four letter word that all writers use, all the time, regardless of who they are and what they write.

And it’s not the one you’re thinking of.

It's been a new problem, sort of. New to me. Something I never really had to contend with in the past.