With rejection and intense commitment such integral parts of the writing life, many struggle to stay with the creative process. Combining explorations of perseverance, intention, riding through failure, and meaning-making with bringing oneself fully into one's art, Stay With It offers writers practices to sustain their writing and their creative life. Through a hybrid of craft, pedagogy, memoir and personal essay that call upon reflective exercises and prompts, Cindy Shearer helps writers understand themselves as artists as well as the nature of writing as an artistic process and practice…

This is for every writer who has experienced failure or discouragement, who has wondered how they can ever start again. Shearer reminds us, through her own experience, her wisdom and through a range of creatively salutary exercises that writers of every stripe can indeed come back to their art and stay with it.

-Tanya Perkins, Associate Professor of English, Indiana University East, USA