Cynthia Harrison

Novelist

Tag: day job

  • Writing Saves Me

    I have never missed a deadline in my life. Until this month. When I used to hear published authors talk about being behind on a book, I judged them. How lucky were they? Didn’t they realize? What was their problem? Why risk losing a career most writers would do anything to get? So, as happens…

  • Tricks of the Sentence Trade

    There are teachers who write and writers who teach; we are separate species. I’m a writer who teaches, but that doesn’t mean I don’t care about my day job. It means it’s a job, not my life’s passion. It’s an interesting job for a writer, too, since I’m helping college freshmen learn tricks of the sentence trade. I would…

  • Writing & Working

    There are only so many minutes in the day. In the past, I have been the kind of writer who, when teaching, can’t get much creative work done. All my energy goes into my classes. But through the years, I figured out that if I write first thing in the morning, I get so much more…