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Writer with a Day Job: Inspiration & Exercises to Help You Craft a Writing Life Alongside Your Career

Don’t let the daily grind drain your creative energy!

You can work full time and still have a productive writing life. Many writers waste time waiting for the day they can finally quit their day jobs and live the so-called writing dream. Don’t wait. You can do both – and your writing will be the better for it.

Balancing a full-time job and a productive writing life is no easy feat! This book offers writers advice, skill-building techniques, prompts, and exercises in every chapter, and strategies on how to get and keep writing while also working the 9 to 5 grind.

Readers will discover tips and exercises for:

Setting and protecting personal writing goalsCreating a schedule that complements their staminaGetting creative before and after work – and on their lunch hourFinding inspiration in the most unlikely of spots and at the most impromptu of timesWriting proficiently in multiple forms (long and short) so that they don’t get bogged down writing one long projectBecoming an active participant in writing communities so they have a solid support system at the readyFiguring out how (if at all) to share their writing life with co-workers, friends, and family members

You’ll also get quick, practical tutorials to help you master scenes, point of view, characters, settings, dialogue, and more.

Writer With a Day Job gives you the strategies and motivation you need to work 40 hours a week (or more!) and achieve writing success.

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The Busy Writer: Finding the Time and Inspiration to Write

Do you feel you are too busy to write? Do you feel the burn of that creative spark that yearns to be set free? Do you struggle to come up with ideas and then struggle again to organize those hard-won ideas into workable projects? The Busy Writer will help you find the time AND inspiration to write. It is a simple, concise guide for the busy writer, written by a stay-at-home father of one-year-old twin boys. Using the methods in this book, Craig A. Hart finished a novel, published a collection of short stories, and wrote this book–The Busy Writer–in the course of one year, all while working to raise his twin boys. You, too, can use the principles found here to increase your own creative productivity.

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The Habit-Driven Writer: Create a Daily Writing Habit in the Next 21 Days (Motivation for Writers) (Volume 2)

Habit. It’s part of you. Working constantly. Habit controls you, even when you aren’t aware of it. Habit can sabotage you and stop you from achieving success in your writing career. OR . . . If you tap into the power of positive habit creation – it can propel you into the life and career you dream of developing. Creating positive habits that actually HELP you reach your goals, while eliminating the bad habits that hold you back, is the key to personal and professional success. If you want to become an excellent writer — if you want to develop a rewarding writing career — if you want to attain the lifestyle of your dreams — you MUST create positive habits. BUT HOW? How can you create positive habits that will change your life? The Habit-Driven Writer explains how you can start creating positive habits now! • Learn how habits work • Discover the key habits of successful writers • Find out how to create new habits • Understand why good habits fail • Develop a plan to stick with your new habits • Become a habit-driven writer! • Includes a 21-day workbook section & bonus checklist

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The Five-Minute Writer: Exercise and inspiration in creative writing in five minutes a day

Suitable for writers, this title includes chapters that offers a writing-related discussion, followed by a five-minute exercise. Five minutes a day spent on an exercise is one of the most effective methods there is to expand your potential and develop self-discipline.

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The Happy Writer: Your Secret Weapon Against Rejection, Dejection, Writer’s Block, And The Emotional Pitfalls Of The Writing Life

Feeling depressed about your writing career? Frustrated by the loneliness, exhaustion, and difficult odds of making it as a writer? Have you lost the joy that made you want to write in the first place?

Take heart; you’re not alone.

At some point, every writer suffers the writing blues. And every successful writer finds a way through it. The Happy Writer offers proven tips and motivational tools to overcome the hardships of the writing life.

Useful for prose and poetry writers alike, just a few of the topics covered in this life-changing book include:
– Diet and lifestyle tips that promote creativity
– The art of interpreting rejection letters
– New methods of overcoming writer’s block
– Self-sabotage signs and solutions
We also cover confidence boosting, avoiding frustration and negativity, overcoming writer’s guilt, and more!

Are you ready to change your attitude and improve your writing life? The Happy Writer will jump-start your journey to becoming a happier, more productive writer today!