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Finding Your Writing Inspiration

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Being a writer and making a living as a writer are often two different things. Maybe you’re writing poetry at night but by day you’re writing technical manuals or web copy. Journalist Michael Erard, whose day job is writing for think tank, describes such a writer as “a dancer who walks for a living.” How do you make the transition between the two? How do you inspire yourself all over again to write what you love? This is part of a complete episode.

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