Writing in Real Life
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The Internet seems to be half full of writers with infinite time and money on their hands. They advise aspiring writers to spend 8 hours a day reading and then spend another 8 hours writing - anything, everything, whatever comes into their heads. They say we should set ourselves daily word targets, and not stop until we reach them; but also that we should still socialise as much as possible, because all the people we meet will be delicious fuel for our writing. They tell us to buy Scrivener for £15 or a Macbook for £1500, to pay for creative writing classes or attend ridiculous How to Get Published conferences that never helped anyone get published. If you really want to write, they say, if you're really serious about it, this will all be a matter of course. If not, well, you can't want it that much, can you?
But what about those of us who have jobs that we can't afford to just quit? What about people with pets and loved ones and bills and interests that demand our time and money? What about those of us who just write because we like to write, and not because we need to be rich and famous (an unlikely dream anyway, even for a brilliant writer)?
Well, if you're one of those people, welcome to Writing in Real Life. In this series, I'll be exploring what it's like to write in the real world, without weighing yourself down with a desperation to get published or the pressure of hard deadlines and insane word goals. I'll be sharing ideas on how to find time for writing if you don't want to quit your job and stay indoors all day, and useful writing software and hardware for people who can't afford to spew all their wages into Tim Cook's greedy pockets. I might even give you a chance to join in or something. I don't know. One step at a time, folks.
And if you're still reading, you must be interested. So why not click a link or two below and read the content I've spent literally tens of minutes putting together for you?
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