Writer With a Day Job - Inspiration & Exercises to Help You Craft a Writing Life Alongside Your Career

Aine Greaney

F+W Media

2011

233 páginas

7h 46m

ISBN-10: 1582979960

Balancing a full-time job and a productive writing life is no easy feat! This book offers writers advice, skill-building techniques, prompts, and exercises in every chapter, and strategies on how to get and keep writing while also working the 9 to 5 grind. Readers will discover tips and exercises for:

1. Setting and protecting personal writing goals

2. Creating a schedule that complements their stamina

3. Getting creative before and after work - and on their lunch hour

4. Finding inspiration in the most unlikely of spots and at the most impromptu of times

5. Writing proficiently in multiple forms (long and short) so that they don't get bogged down writing one long project

6. Becoming an active participant in writing communities so they have a solid support system at the ready

7. Figuring out how (if at all) to share their writing life with co-workers, friends, and family members