Welcome to The Writing Life
"I have been looking into schedules.
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our
lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what
we are doing. A schedule defends us from chaos and whim.
It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on
which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at
sections of time. A schedule is a mock-up of reason
and order--willed, faked, and so brought into being;
it is a lifeboat on which you find yourself, decades
later, still living. Each day is the same, so you remember
the series afterward as a blurred and powerful pattern."
---Annie Dillard, The Writing Life
Getting Started
- Introduction
"I began writing when I was a girl; poems, songs,
stories and was first published at fifteen. In my
twenties I began a career in the food business as
a chef and caterer. Like many would-be writers, life
exacted its usual toll of pain and pitfalls, and I
was sometimes blown off course. But there came a time
in my mid-thirties when I decided to make writing
my priority, and I finally settled in front of my
computer and produced a steady stream of words..."
- Brainstorming
- 10 Steps to Get Started
Writing Out the Storm
Fiction
Creative Non-Fiction
Style & Technique
Writing Exercises
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