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33 | Anne Lamott: Make Your Writing Fears Work For YOU

By The Screenwriting Life

8:10 AM EST on February 28, 2021

Anne Lamott is one of culture's most celebrated voices when it comes to creativity and writing. Her book Bird By Bird is a modern classic (Ed Solomon says it's the best book on writing ever published), but Anne is uniquely positioned as someone who is beloved for BOTH her fiction and her non-fiction. On today's show, we discuss the importance of finding hope to unlock our best creative selves, how we can quiet that inner critic (yes, even 10 times NYT Bestselling Author Anne Lamott gets paralyzed by creative anxiety), and how we can turn our fear into excitement.TO PRE-ORDER Anne's Book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08JKK77V2/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1For SHAPES OF TRUTH: https://www.shapesoftruth.com/neal-allen-bioLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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