The Great Belonging & Taylor Swift

The Great Belonging & Taylor Swift

Book cover titled 'The Great Belonging: How Loneliness Leads Us to Each Other' by Charlotte Donlon, with a foreword by Lauren F. Winner, adjacent to a woman with red hair in a swimming pool blowing a bubble.

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.