We all come to this blog because we love this woman. I’ve known her for 20 years now and I was reading this book on writing by an author I adore, Anne LaMott, and this paragraph leapt off the page and screamed “SHEILA!!” I had to put it down here. This will be my little; Blue’s Bookshelf: Excerpt from: “Bird By Bird”<\/p>\n
“I started writing a lot in high school: journals, impassioned antiwar pieces, parodies of the writers I loved. And I began to notice something very important. The other kids always wanted me to tell them stories of what had happened, even-or especially-when they had been there. Parties that got away from us, blowups in the classroom or in the schoolyard, scenes involving their parents that we had witnessed-I could make the story happen. I could make it vivid and funny, and even exaggerate some of it so that the event became almost mythical, and the people involved seemed larger, and there was a sense of larger signigicance, of meaning”<\/p>\n
Thank you for making my life seem larger!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We all come to this blog because we love this woman. I’ve known her for 20 years now and I was reading this book on writing by an author I adore, Anne LaMott, and this paragraph leapt off the page … Continue reading