Writing Magazine

GET in the HABIT

It can feel a bit of an exhortation, to write every day, but what does this mean in the reality of a writer’s life? With recent global pandemics creating unexpected time on our hands to write, what better moment could there be to put it into practice?

“Be free and easy in your writing. Don’t bring your reason to it too much. Just have a go and see what comes out.”
Anna Burns, 2018 Booker Prize-winning author of Milkman

Whether you’ve only ever written a shopping list or a work, psychoanalyst Bruno Bettelheim wrote:

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