How to Write Without Getting More Gray Hair

Stress is something many writers live with, especially those who work under deadlines and depend on their checks for their day-to-day subsistence. In fact, many writers wear their gray hairs as badges of pride. That same stressed existence doesn't have to be your life, though.

"It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? For the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself is gone. That is where the writer scores over his fellows: he catches the changes of his mind on the hop."
Vita Sackville-West

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Fast fact about writing

In some languages, as in English and French, the modern freezing of spelling has removed the writing more and more from pronunciation and has resulted in the need to teach spelling and the growth of fallacies like the "silent" letter (a letter is really either the symbol of a sound or it is unnecessary).