There's no such thing as the writing life
From Sloane Crosley’s Look Alive Out There. Probably the most accurate two paragraphs I’ve ever read on the writing life:
There is fantasy known as “the writing life.” Inasmuch as it’s any kind of life at all. Or any kind of fantasy at all. The average person will spend more time over the course of his or her lifetime wondering why marshmallow is spelled like that than they will wondering how writers write. But at some point, you may have asked yourself: Who gets up early?…
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