Do writers get days off?

Mimi Karabulut
Sep 3, 2018 · 2 min read

The short answer is: no

The kind of writer I am, and the kind of writer you likely are too, is the one that constantly looks for inspiration. Eavesdropping conversations on the bus, train, and while fiddling with the car radio to desperately search for that one word missing from making the perfect dialogue is just part what we do as writers. It’s not limited to interactions with others, either. Reading is our research. Fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry percolates in our minds and subtlety integrates itself into our arsenal of intellect to be employed in our sentences at a…

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