Wednesday, Feb. 24

Writing Changes You

Regardless of how it all turns out. Author Anne Enright elaborates on her list of Ten Rules for Writing Fiction:

Remember, if you sit at your desk for 15 or 20 years, every day, not ­counting weekends, it changes you. It just does. It may not improve your temper, but it fixes something else. It makes you more free.

I still write on Saturdays. Sundays I take off though. Her first rule, though, is what stood out to me:

The first 12 years are the worst.