How To Bring Your Writing Life Back from the Dead

Lessons from my slow return to the page after a long layoff.

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At first, I described it as a “rut.” Something I could shake off soon enough. But disturbingly, months of not making time to write turned into years. One problem was that I did copywriting and magazine editing for my day job, so I often felt uninspired to do more writing in my…