Perhaps, just as the real life of a rock band may still lie in recordings, while its material life takes place in the concert hall and, God help us, in its merchandise, the real predicament of the contemporary writer is that, while the vocation remains on the page, the occupation has shifted to everything around it.
It reflects the consumers' shift to doing everything from work to play on mobile devices.
There has been a shift to online for everything from customer services to shopping and social security payments, meaning less need for human-to-human contact.
Try to fit your runs into your existing routine, so you don't have to shift everything around to make time for training.
Shift the focus to everything you're not.
Instead of fighting against everything that is wrong, perhaps we can shift our focus to everything that is right and give this our attention.
If you shift your thinking to "everything counts," you will know that every act of conservation--a light turned out, less aggressive driving, added insulation--reduces energy consumption.
The shift to the United States has made everything from dorms to hiring faculty members more costly.
But the shift to a heliocentric model made everything simpler; a similar, or analogous shift in perspective may in the future help us come to a better understanding of, say, time.
She lived shift to shift on tips, spent everything she had on booze, lost her apartment, crashed on couches, and drank every hour of her waking life to keep from vomiting.
