Athletes have healthy diets, and so should writers. Writing well gets easier when our belly is healthy and our brain and body are both well oiled. There's a growing body of research that suggests we have a "second brain" in our gut, that the bacteria in there contributes a great deal to our physical and … Continue reading The Writer’s Diet
As writers, we start with pen and paper, and then we move on to devices that help us write, revise, and edit faster. Our parents had typewriters; we have computers. Computers are, or at least seem to be, less wasteful than typewriters and have many useful features, but they also happen to have tiring and … Continue reading Laptops Versus Typewriters Versus Freewrite
Wait – being a writer of books is a job in itself, isn't it? The fact of the matter is that many writers don't make enough money from their books to live off their writing (comfortably enough at least), and the small percentage who do have had to work their way to the top. Most … Continue reading The Best Day Job For a Writer
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