Cameron posted this piece of writing advice from Anne Lamott this morning, and it rather caught my attention.
"Toni Morrison said, 'The function of freedom is to free someone else,' and if you are no longer wracked or in bondage to a person or a way of life, tell your story. Risk freeing someone else.
Not everyone will be glad you did. Members of your family and other critics may wish you had kept your secrets.
Oh, well, what are you going to do? Get it all down. Let it pour out of you onto the page. Write an incredibly shitty, self-indulgent, whiny, mewling first draft. Then take out as many of the excesses as you can."
--Anne Lamott
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
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