A Portable Practice: 74 short essays on writing

By Marcella Haddad

"Writing is the fun part. Productivity is just a symptom of the practice."

It's time to define your writing process. If you want to understand why you get stuck and how to develop your own routine, this collection has 74 tools for you to learn from and reference along your writing journey.

Writing doesn't have to be a struggle. Inspiration can be endless and the words can be fluid. When you sit down at your computer to write, you can shift your experience from stagnation and frustration to ease and curiosity.

With gentle guidance, personal anecdotes, and honest advice, these essays cover the stages of brainstorming, outlining, drafting, revising, and publishing a book.

Are you ready to form a new relationship to writing?

Readers will learn how to: play nice with their perfectionismsafely abandon what's no longer workingmake serious progress on a book-length workdevelop a consistent writing practice without relying on shameevaluate a body of work and set publishing goals
Look behind the scenes of one writer's process, and take some strategies back to your own work.

Marcella Haddad is an author and creative writing teacher who has been helping writers make progress on their books for over 5 years. She is the author of several works of fiction and poetry, and her writing has been awarded the Gateway Literary Press Surrealist Novella Prize and been nominated for Best of the Net and the Pushchart Prize. She is passionate about understanding the writing process and encouraging writers to try new strategies to harness their perfectionism and ambition.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0F13ZZL34
• ISBN13: 9798313486376
• Release Date: March 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 8.0"