Shitty First Drafts
(Actually, this is from Joan Didion's "Why I Write," but I like Anne Lamott's title better.)
"All I knew then was what I couldn't do. All I knew then was what I wasn't, and it took me some years to discover who I was.
Which was a writer.
By which I mean not a "good" writer or a "bad" writer but simply a writer, a person whose most absorbed and ( Read more... )
"All I knew then was what I couldn't do. All I knew then was what I wasn't, and it took me some years to discover who I was.
Which was a writer.
By which I mean not a "good" writer or a "bad" writer but simply a writer, a person whose most absorbed and ( Read more... )
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BUT, there was an excerpt in my English textbook from Bird by Bird (called Shitty First Drafts) in the same chapter and I'm in love with that one too. Unfortunately, I couldn't find a single part I liked best and it was much too long to write the whole thing.
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