You may find that your friends and family are somewhat less than respectful of you sitting there in your sacred space.  They might even refer to what you’re up to as “typing” or “your new hobby.”  Writing is not a hobby.  Collecting stamps or coins are hobbies. Writing is a calling.

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“I believe that – if you are serious about a life of writing, or indeed about any creative form of expression – you should take on this work like a holy calling. I became a writer the way other people become monks or nuns…I was writing’s most devotional handmaiden. I built my entire life around writing.”  Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love (quoted from her website)

(This post and 'Sacred Space' are from my book-in-progress, A Year of Writing Dangerously)