The Real Truth

“The very first thing I tell my new students on the first day of a workshop is that good writing is about telling the truth. We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep lice do not seem to share this longing, which is one reason they write so very little.”

—Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Tell me ten things you know the truth about. The real truth. Write several paragraphs about each, honing in on its essential truth as you have lived it and known it. Start with the words, “I know the real truth about…..”

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