There has been an interesting discussion going on at Writing Magazine in the past few months, but as usual I was a bit late to the party and therefore didn’t feel able to contribute. (Having a blog is a great way to say what you wish you’d said at the time, right? I can come up with all manner of witty retorts and genius musings months after the event and they still count because it’s a blog post. LOVE IT.)

As a little aside, my procrastination device of choice recently has been collecting ins...