The Longing of Creation: A Writing Workshop with Novelist Anne Lamott - BHNN Guest Podcast Ep. 178

Describing writing as an act of faith, author Anne Lamott offers a workshop on connecting to our inner longing for creativity.
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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This was so wonderful. I love Anne Lamott

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Perfect timing, Anne! Thank you Love Serve Remember!

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Thanks for listening! Glad to hear the timing was just right 😀

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Thank you for helping me push through the creative process.

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THIS was a balm to my soul. Thank you, thank you, thank you 🙏🏽

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Thank you so much for posting this❤

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Thanks for taking the time to listen! We hope that this helps grow your creative energy.

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Today is a lucky day. What a find you are x

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Enlightenment is like jumping out of an airplane without a parachute. So the bad news is that you don't have parachute, but the good news is that you discover there is no ground. And then you're just endlessly falling and you never reach the ground. So in a sense, what i'm asking you to do is to jump. And you don't want to jump. You're saying, I'm scared. I'm too scared to jump. And I'm saying, jump. God is telling you, jump, jump into infinite love and it's going to be great. But you're like, what if I kill myself and what if something else happens? I don't know. You just jump into infinite love. Take the leap of faith and you'll discover infinite love. And you're too scared to do it. But then eventually when you do it, then you're just going to discover that there's no ground. You're endlessly falling forever and it's great. But yeah, taking that leap is really difficult. It requires you to face your death. So of course, everybody is too afraid to do it. People are just to scared.

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What is the name of the movie at 55:36 ? I'm foreigner and I don't manage to catch the title 😜

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Hit it on the head I work incredibly hard to NOT WRITE If I could stop NOT WRITING everything I want would be possible