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​You'll Never Be Quite the Same

Encouragement for writers and others, from Anne Lamott

1/12/2020

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Anne Lamott giving a TED talk in 2017, "12 truths I learned from life and writing."

            I stumbled upon an Anne Lamott TED talk this morning. As always, her simple wisdom made me laugh, contemplate, and feel, the very things I aspire to elicit with my own writing. She also empowers me to slog on with my writing. Sometimes I fear my writing is a lot of self-absorbed, navel-gazing drivel, or that I’m wasting my own and others’ time with banalities. Lamott’s words set me back, humbly, on my horse:
            “You're going to feel like hell if you wake up someday and you never wrote the stuff that is tugging on the sleeves of your heart: your stories, memories, visions and songs -- your truth, your version of things -- in your own voice. That's really all you have to offer us, and that's also why you were born.”
            Thank you, Anne.

 
My 60th year in 60,000 words
Day 139: 136 words, TOTAL = 22,679; 37,321 remaining

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    Robin Clifford Wood is a writer and writing teacher.  She lives  in central Maine with her husband and dogs, loves to be outdoors, and enjoys ever-expanding horizons through her grown children and their multi-species families.

    To read about the "60th year in 60,000 words" challenge, go to the August 27th blog post. 
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    https://www.robincliffordwood.com/youll-never-be-quite-the-same---blog/tomorrow-is-launch-day
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