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17Dec 2012 by diannagunn

Balancing Fiction and Non-Fiction

While I've been blogging for years, over the last year or so I've become more focused on non-fiction than ever before. This is not because I've found some new passion for it. It's because it's easier to get paid for non-fiction than it is to get paid for fiction, and I very much want to make a living. So I've shifted my focus to include more non-fiction. And I've actually gotten paid for a few articles, inspiring me to write more--after all, it's not like I'm getting paid for my short stories yet. But while non-fiction is an easier way to make a living off what I love doing--writing--it's important to me that I keep this work balanced with my fiction, the stuff I'm truly passionate about. I might not…

04Mar 2011 by diannagunn

Balance

Journalling, Writing

As writers we are told everywhere, in books and all over the web, that to succeed we must write every day. This is true to a point. Being a fiction writer primarily, I am letting go of the idea that I need to work on one of my novels every day. Going to school and having lots of friends-with a bigger social circle than most other writers I know-means that I don't have time to write every day. It's very easy when you miss a day or two-or a week-to bring yourself down, to feel guilty about not writing. All the time we hear that serious writers work at their craft every day, that they apply butt to chair and work until their fingers hurt. Certainly full time writers should…