The Great Belonging & Taylor Swift

The Great Belonging & Taylor Swift

Sometimes it’s good to ignore the dozen other things that you need to do for your writing and Spiritual Direction for Writers work and use seven hours to choose a Taylor Swift song for every chapter of your first book, The Great Belonging: How Loneliness Leads us to Each Other.

I’m posting chapter and song pairings most days over at A Writer’s Diary. And I’ll keep a list of links below.

Thanks so much for following along. Enjoy!

*The Great Belonging: How Loneliness Leads Us to Each Other is available here and wherever books are sold.

The Great Belonging and Taylor Swift: Introduction

The Great Belonging and Taylor Swift: Chapter 1

The Great Belonging and Taylor Swift: Chapter 2

The Great Belonging and Taylor Swift: Chapter 3

The Great Belonging and Taylor Swift: Chapter 4

The Great Belonging and Taylor Swift: Chapter 5

The Great Belonging and Taylor Swift: Chapter 6

The Great Belonging and Taylor Swift: Chapter 7

The Great Belonging and Taylor Swift: Chapter 8

The Great Belonging and Taylor Swift: Chapter 9

The Great Belonging and Taylor Swift: Chapter 10

The Great Belonging and Taylor Swift: Chapter 11

The Great Belonging and Taylor Swift: Chapter 12

The Great Belonging and Taylor Swift: Chapter 13

The Great Belonging and Taylor Swift: Chapter 14

The Great Belonging and Taylor Swift: Chapter 15

The Great Belonging and Taylor Swift: Chapter 16

The Great Belonging and Taylor Swift: Chapter 17

The Great Belonging and Taylor Swift: Chapter 18

The Great Belonging and Taylor Swift: Chapter 19

The Great Belonging and Taylor Swift: Chapter 20

The Great Belonging and Taylor Swift: Chapter 21

The Great Belonging and Taylor Swift: Chapter 22

The Great Belonging and Taylor Swift: Chapter 23

The Great Belonging and Taylor Swift: Chapter 24

The Great Belonging and Taylor Swift: Chapter 25

The Great Belonging and Taylor Swift: Chapter 26

The Great Belonging and Taylor Swift: Chapter 27

The Great Belonging and Taylor Swift: Chapter 28

The Great Belonging and Taylor Swift: Chapter 29

The Great Belonging and Taylor Swift: Chapter 30

The Great Belonging and Taylor Swift: Chapter 31

The Great Belonging and Taylor Swift: Chapter 32

The Great Belonging and Taylor Swift: Chapter 33

The Great Belonging and Taylor Swift: Chapter 34

The Great Belonging and Taylor Swift: Chapter 35

The Great Belonging and Taylor Swift: Chapter 36

The Great Belonging and Taylor Swift: Chapter 37

The Great Belonging and Taylor Swift: Chapter 38

The Great Belonging and Taylor Swift: Chapter 39

The Great Belonging and Taylor Swift: Chapter 40

The Great Belonging and Taylor Swift: Chapter 41

The Great Belonging and Taylor Swift: Chapter 42

The Great Belonging and Taylor Swift: Chapter 43


Charlotte Donlon helps her readers and clients notice how they belong to themselves, others, God, and the world. Charlotte is a writer, a spiritual director for writers, and the founder of Spiritual Direction for Writers™. Her essays have appeared in The Washington Post, The Curator, The Christian Century, Christianity Today, Catapult, The Millions, Mockingbird, and elsewhere. Her first book is The Great Belonging: How Loneliness Leads Us to Each Other. She’s currently writing her next book, Spiritual Direction for Writers, which will be published by Eerdmans in 2024.