Author: Allie Samberts

Allie Samberts is a pen name. I'm also a teacher, and I don't want my students finding my writing. I'm also a reader, runner, and crafter. I live in the Chicago suburbs with my husband, two kids, and very loud beagle. I write romance novels, and my debut novel will be released in the spring of 2023! I'm so excited for you to meet these lovebirds, Mac and Daniel. They've won my heart, and I hope they win yours too!

I’m starting to understand the tortured writer stereotype

Is it the constant mainlining of caffeine that makes writers tortured? Maybe. When I picture a tortured writer, I envision someone bent over a typewriter grabbing at their hair, a cigarette dangling between the first two fingers on their right hand and three or four half-finished and now-cold cups of coffee littered around their desk. Notes are, of course, strewn everywhere. The room is probably dark, too. It’s hard to be tortured in broad daylight.

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