A Year in the Life (Intro)

Welcome.

This is an attempt to document my days as a full-time writer.

As of December 2005, I left my job after almost a decade and all sources of security, in order to embrace the writing life 24/7. I had no idea what to expect as I had never had the full day to write before. All articles, columns, essays, features and reviews were written between jobs, events, and dates. This is how most people I knew wrote - I know because they were sitting across me on the subway furiously writing in their notebook, or beside me in the waiting room at the doctor's office. I noticed this, in the short glances that I took to look away from my palmtop, as I madly tried to finish a column to deadline.

This is my story of leaving everything I knew behind in order to complete my book and jumpstart my writing career full-time.

Thanks for reading.

Stephanie