- What kind of
attitude do you need just to get writing done according to Lamott? Is
"perfectionism" your friend? (Shitty First Drafts and
Perfectionism)
"In any case, The bottom line is that if you want to write,
you get to, but you probably wont be able to get very far if you don’t start
you trying to get over your perfectionism. You must set out to tell a story of
some sort, to tell the truth as you feel it, because something is, call you to
do so. It calls you like the beckoning finger of smoke in cartoons that rises
off the pie cooling on the windowsill, slides under the door and into the mouse
holes or into the nostrils of the sleeping man or woman in the easy chair." Page
31.
Character is crucial to storytelling. What does Lamott have
to say? (Character)
"A man I know once said to me, “the evidence is in, and you
are the verdict.” This will be truth for each of your characters. The evidence
will be in, and each of them will be his or her own verdict. But you may not
know what the verdict is at first." Page 46
What do you need to know about plot? (Plot)
"Some
writer claim that they know what the climax is early on, well before they get
any where near it. The climax is the major event, usually towards the end, that
brings the tunes you have been playing so far into one major chord, after which
at least one of your people is so profoundly changed. If someone isn’t changed,
then what is the point of your story? For the climax there must be a killing, a
heeling, or a domination." Page 61.
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