Author(s): Aine Greaney

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Balancing a full-time job and a productive writing life is no easy feat! "Writer With a Day Job" offers writers advice, skill-building techniques, prompts, and exercises in every chapter, and strategies on how to get and keep writing while also working the 9 to 5 grind. Readers discover tips and exercises for: setting and protecting personal writing goals; creating a schedule that complements their stamina; getting creative at work...without getting fired; finding inspiration in the most unlikely of spots and at the most impromptu of times; writing proficiently in multiple forms (long and short) so that they don't get bogged down writing one long project; becoming an active participant in writing communities so they have a solid support system at the ready; figuring out how (if at all) to share their writing life with co-workers, friends, and family members; and, much, much more!