http://booksbywomen.org/having-an-affair-with-your-writing/ Fri, 07 Jul 2017 03:16:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 http://booksbywomen.org/having-an-affair-with-your-writing/#comment-48715 Fri, 07 Jul 2017 03:16:17 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=15809#comment-48715 Liz Gilbert does absolutely nothing for me personally, but I’m glad you found inspiration!

]]> http://booksbywomen.org/having-an-affair-with-your-writing/#comment-48696 Sun, 25 Jun 2017 20:25:42 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=15809#comment-48696 Thank you for writing this powerful and relateable post. I SO agree with the idea of having an affair with your work. Sometimes it’s so easy to get bogged down with day to day responsibilities and expectations…and that makes it too easy to put our creativity on hold. I’ve found that I’m simply more at peace when I make space for my writing. It may take time and energy that I often don’t have but I’ve never regretted it. Also, congratulations on finishing a book! That is a HUGE accomplishment on its own and I wish you the best of luck with querying.

]]> http://booksbywomen.org/having-an-affair-with-your-writing/#comment-48353 Mon, 13 Feb 2017 13:39:16 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=15809#comment-48353 Really enjoyed hearing about your experience…neat the way those two influences motivated you. Sometimes I get frustrated with myself for reading so much writing self-help (I have a serious addiction) BUT it really does get me writing so I suppose it’s generally a healthy one. You’ve done the hard part – finishing the book. Hopefully you’ll find an agent and get it published and have a huge audience for it. There’s more than a lot of luck involved in that. But you did everything you can do–devoted yourself to your craft in between all the other demands of your life– and that’s by far the biggest achievement.

]]> http://booksbywomen.org/having-an-affair-with-your-writing/#comment-48213 Thu, 05 Jan 2017 01:01:08 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=15809#comment-48213 Wow, Gail! You really captured what so many of us feel. I loved your story about the weekend away when you really got back in touch with the book and your own creative urge to write. That is EXACTLY what it takes to jump-start a project like this. I’ve got a book due in March, and I’m currently slogging about, grousing, and NOT making out with it (LOL). But I need to fall in love with it. Might have to take it away for a weekend and woo it some more. Thanks for this!

]]> http://booksbywomen.org/having-an-affair-with-your-writing/#comment-47716 Sat, 25 Jun 2016 15:44:51 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=15809#comment-47716 Congratulations on typing ‘The End’, Gail. The effort that goes in prior to that is enormous. I am also a big lover of Liz Gilbert’s words and have been recommending Big Magic to anyone who’ll listen, writers in particular. It’s a brilliant book. I wish you all the best with your novel.

]]> http://booksbywomen.org/having-an-affair-with-your-writing/#comment-47709 Wed, 22 Jun 2016 11:40:31 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=15809#comment-47709 […] Gail Werner Recently I completed my first young adult novel. As anyone writing a book can attest, it was a long […]

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