How to Be Happy as a Writer

Most of us writer-types spend much of our time anything but happy. We’re not as successful as we like, or we didn’t win NaNoWriMo, or we’re stuck on a chapter we didn’t anticipate, or we’ve written ourselves into a corner, etc. and so forth.

Look, no one is going to be happy all the time, but I’m not asking you to be. Constant writer happiness isn’t the goal. Normalizing it is.

THAT DARNED ELUSIVE BLUEBIRD

There are many steps to finding writer happiness, but one is important above all others: s...