Exactly how I'm feeling right now...

  

Write on!

Three down, three to go. It's hard to realize that we are halfway through this memoir class.

So, as you can see from Bob in this cartoon this is not the memoir you want to be writing.

I don't think this is even the journal you want to write.

But you have to start somewhere, right?

From what I've heard, every student has a great story to tell unlike Bob who puts himself to sleep with his own writing.

I'm looking forward to seeing what you come up with.

Write on!

Write now

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Learning to write is like learning a sport or a new instrument.

It takes practice.

If you write an hour each day, you will have written seven hours in a week. What you write doesn't have to be great. It won't be a final draft, but it will be something you have created on paper.

And the more you write, the better you will become.

And the easier it will get.

Think of these words from Anne Lamott:

“I don't know where to start," one [writing student] will wail. Start with your childhood, I tell them. Plug your nose and jump in, and write down all your memories as truthfully as you can. Flannery O' Connor said that anyone who has survived childhood has enough material to write for the rest of his or her life. Maybe your childhood was grim and horrible, but grim and horrible is Okay if it is well done. Don't worry about doing it well yet, though. Just get it down.” ― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life