Ep. 178 - The Longing of Creation: A Writing Workshop with Anne Lamott

Describing writing as an act of faith, author Anne Lamott offers a workshop on connecting to our inner longing for creativity.

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This week, Anne Lamott joins the BHNN Guest podcast to teach: 

• Following our creative lives and childhood callings
• Meeting our creativity half-way
• How all of us start at the beginning
• Making time for writing in our lives
• Figuring out what it is we want to write and making a list
• Owning everything that was done to us and everything we have seen
• Accepting that our first drafts will not be wonderful
• Why we should not worship perfectionism
• Finding a writing partner or local writing group
• Taking everything sentence by sentence
• Paying attention to ourselves and all that dwells within us

To read the poem Anne recites, Monet Refuses the Operation, click HERE.

About Anne Lamott:

Anne Lamott is the New York Times best-selling author of many books, including collections of essays, novels, and long-form non-fiction, including the classic writing manual Bird by Bird and child-rearing memoir Operating Instructions. In addition to being a novelist and nonfiction writer, Lamott is also a progressive political activist, public speaker, and writing teacher. Keep up with Anne on Instagram.

“Isn’t that amazing what is inside you that wants you to midwife it? It needs a doula. It needs you. It has no pens. It has no paper. It needs you to birth it. So here is what you do, you stop not writing.” – Anne Lamott

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