Interesting writing essay

[sunnyskywalker]

I'm going to have to read this one a few more times: The Own-Work Woodshed by Kate Wagner. It's about the importance of practice writing, the kind that's just for fun or experimentation and not started with the goal of creating a popular, saleable product every time you sit down at the keyboard.

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[mary_j_59]

Interesting! Hope you're doing well btw. This reminds me of Megan Whalen Turner, a writer my sister and I greatly admire, saying "everything you write is practice. If you write a grocery list, that's practice."

[sunnyskywalker]

That's another reminder for me to put that author on my to-read list! It's nice when authors remind us that it's okay if not every word has to go toward something immediately marketable and profitable. Practice is good. Even if it never accomplishes anything but fun, fun is a good end in itself!

I'm okay at the moment--lots of arm trouble for the past few months (easing up, yay), and now recovering from influenza. But I had my flu shot and got Tamiflu and have been keeping overall healthy, so it was a tolerable case. I'm still tiring easily but mostly just have the annoying lingering cough I get with every respiratory virus.