![]() If nothing else, write about your childhood–everything you can remember and sit down and do it at the same time every day–struggling with the voices that say you can’t do this. In the first part, she talks about basic steps to getting started. And make a commitment to finishing things.” It might be that this is some of the best writing advice in a book chock full of Lamott’s earthy, practical, and funny advice.īasically, according to Lamott, if you want to be a writer, you need to write. She wrote sophomoric material as a sophomore but she heeded her dad’s counsel: “Do it every day for a while. Eventually she learned that she was good at stories and funny. Her second grade teacher read a poem she wrote about John Glenn and she won an award. She started doing this as a schoolgirl and never stopped. ![]() She learned, along with prisoners he taught, to put a little down on a piece of paper every day, and to read lots of great books and plays and that we all have a lot in us to share. ![]() Summary: Anne Lamott’s advice to her writing students, basically, “almost every single thing I know about writing.”Īnne Lamott grew up around a father who wrote. ![]()
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