Etiqueta: Anne Lamott
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Lo horrible de escribir
Pero intento asegurarme que ellos entienden. Escribir, e incluso volverse bueno escribiendo, tener libros e historias y artículos publicados, no abrirá las puertas de lo que desean. No les hará ningún bien. No les dará ese sentimiento de que el mundo, al fin, valida sus boletos de estacionamiento, de que después de todo han llegado.…
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A desperate business
Writing can be a pretty desperate endeavor, because it is about some of our deepest needs: our need to be visible, to be heard, our need to make sense of our lives, to wake up and grow and belong. It is no wonder if we sometimes tend to take ourselves perhaps a bit too seriously.…
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No GPS
«writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.» E. L. Doctorow. Quote found in Bird by bird. Anne Lamott Ahem. I need the ending. That’s like my GPS. True the bloody device urges to make U turns in forbidden places…
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Again, the truth
The very first thing I tell my new students on the first day of a workshop is that good writing is about telling the truth. We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep lice do not seem to share this longing, which is one reason they write so very…