Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Today's Hot Read for Feb. 14: Writer with a Day Job: Inspiration & Exercises to Help You Craft a Writing Life Alongside Your Career by Aine Greaney

From Amazon:

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 with your writing goals is no easy feat, but author Áine Greaney provides the exercises, inspiration, and techniques you need to build creative expression into your daily life and establish the productive writing life you’ve always wanted.
  • Make the most of your writing time early in the morning or late at night. 
  • Harness the power of your lunch hour for writing, editing, and revising.
  • Use your commute—driving or riding—to power your writing.
  • Plan the perfect writing getaway.
  • Set goals, revise your work, and share your writing with coworkers.
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. Download extended interviews with twenty writers who built their writing careers while working full time at writerdigest.com/day-job-exclusive.

Learn more about Aine Greaney in this short video.



Pick up your copy of Writer With a Day Job for your Kindle today!

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