Slice of Life: Living the Life of a Writer
"I write every day for two hours. But it's what I do for the other twenty-two hours that allows me to write." Don Murray (This post is cross-posted at my other blog, Reflect and Refine: Building a Learning Community.) I found this Donald Murray quote on Ralph Fletcher's site . It made me think. Write for two hours a day? I can't imagine it. I'm not really much of a writer. I go through writing spells. Though I don't consider myself a writer, there are times in my life when I can remember writing being an important part of it. There have been times when I've gotten myself into a writing routine. Honestly, I've felt the most balanced in those times. There were my poetry years - years of school in which I focused my writing on poetry. There were my survival years - the years that writing helped m...