Four Things I Learned About Writing by Writing a Book
4 min readFeb 15, 2022
Six years ago I wrote “For the Love of Writing,” about my love of writing as well as the discipline of it. We think of writing as a romantic, unknowable thing — creative inspiration strikes and we’re off to the races, or it’s suddenly dried up and we have nothing to say. But I don’t think creativity really works this way. I think it’s a lot less sexy than that. It’s mostly about hard work.
