WAKE UP AND WRITE
If You Write Enough, Eventually the Good Stuff Appears
Writing is a daily confidence exercise
Wake Up and Write is a regular advice column from Moms Don’t Have Time to Write. Today, we have Anna Quindlen — a pulitzer-prize-winning journalist and the author of the bestselling novels Rise and Shine, Blessings, Object Lessons, One True Thing, Black and Blue, and Nanaville: Adventures in Grandparenting — who shared writing advice on the podcast Moms Don’t Have Time to Read Books, hosted by Zibby Owens.
“It’s pretty simple, actually. You put your butt in a chair.”
“People think that you wait for inspiration. I don’t know where inspiration lives, but she’s not coming.
People think you have to have something important to write about. Really, you just have to sit down and you have to begin. You will tell yourself, as I do every morning, that it’s not good.
But if you write enough, eventually good will probably appear. Then you can get rid of all the not-so-good stuff and start with that one sentence or that one paragraph that sort of took wing. Remember. Writing is a daily confidence exercise.”
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