Why We Write About Ourselves by Meredith Maran
Author:Meredith Maran
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2015-11-19T16:00:00+00:00
Sue Monk Kidd’s Wisdom for Memoir Writers
No matter how much you’ve written or published, hold on to the part of yourself that feels like a beginner. As the Zen saying goes: “In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities. In the expert’s mind there are few.”
Read at the level you want to write.
Discover your own truth, your own vision, your own voice. These things are your particular genius.
Allow yourself to write badly at first; learn to be a consummate rewriter.
Tell your truth, but do it with some discretion.
Writing requires vast amounts of courage. In writing as in life, if you’re going to err, it might as well be on the side of audacity.
Writing is an amazing way to spend your life. It helps to be grateful for that, to stand in awe of it a little.
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