![]() ![]() So you might as well just go ahead and get started.” It’s a matter of persistence and faith and hard work. “You are desperate to communicate, to edify or entertain, to preserve moments of grace or joy of transcendence, to make real or imagined events come alive. ![]() “This is how you train your unconscious to kick in for you creatively.”.Sit down to work at approximately the same time every day.We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are.” “Good writing is about telling the truth.What Lamott tells students on the first day of workshops she teaches. The act of writing turns out to be its own reward.” It’s like discovering that while you thought you needed the tea ceremony for the caffeine, what you really needed was the tea ceremony. That thing you had to force yourself to do – the actual act of writing – turns out to be the best part. “Writing has so much to give, so much to teach, so many surprises. From that experience, she realized that publishing a book didn’t bring her the gratification or affirmation she expected. Lamott sold her first book at 26 years old. Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. “I heard a preacher say recently that hope is a revolutionary patience let me add that so is being a writer. ![]()
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