Writer’s Desk: Make Writing Your Life

When giving advice on writing,Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love;Big Magic) takes the approach that this vocation is a calling, not just a job:

…if you are serious about a life of writing, or indeed about any creative form of expression – that you should take on this work like a holy calling. I became a writer the way other people become monks or nuns. I made a vow to writing, very young. I became Bride-of-Writing. I was writing’s most devotional handmaiden. I built my entire life around writ...