“The secret is, if what we need and want is missing, we begin by going back to where we last saw it.” – Anne Lamott I saw this quote by Anne today and thought, “Wow- that is a pretty interesting insight.” I spend so much of my mental life looking back, and a lot...
Read more →
Last night, I started reading one of a number of short writing books I picked up over the last few months. At the turn of the year, I thought if I read more writing books, I’d write more, so I scoured a few writing book lists from decent sources on the internet for recommends....
Read more →About two months ago, Anne Lamott tweeted a line of advice for writers that has stayed on my mind ever since. She said “Write as if your parents are dead.” I’ve thought for a while about what that statement implied there. She is saying to write as if your parents will never read what...
Read more →Anne Lamott says that if you want to be a writer, you need to sit down each day, and regardless of whether or not you are crazy or mentally dead or narcissistic, try and write at least a paragraph. Get one paragraph down of something, and let that stand, and aim to do it...
Read more →