When your job involves a lot of time at the keyboard, it’s all too easy to hole up indoors and never leave. Well, okay, most of us at least venture out for groceries or coffee every so often, but the point stands—we spend a lot of time indoors. That’s not necessarily...
We all want to be happier. Heck, that’s why many of us started writing: we want to build happier, more balanced lives that don’t involve slogging through the rat race every day. But happiness can feel elusive—no matter how much you have or how well you’re crushing it...
Being a full-time writer is great—you have the opportunity to be creative, express your emotions, provide useful information to your readers, inspire people, and more. It’s a rewarding career, but—as with any other career—there are some downsides, too. Writers...
There are a lot of myths surrounding being a writer. The biggest and most dangerous is that we have to suffer for our art. This “misery myth” holds that writers are moody, fragile, flighty, and prone to bouts of depression—and that we need those things in order to be...
