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Why I Write (And How Writing About Writing Is Like Dancing About Mathematics)
Lissa Rankin, May 10, 2011
I was just asked by my awesome new friend SARK to write about why I write. Now mind you, I write every day. For hours. Writing is what I do. I've written three books, countless magazine articles, and over 350 blog posts, in addition to the private journal writing nobody sees. Writing comes totally naturally to me. And yet, faced with this task, I found myself paralyzed. How do you write about writing? I mean I'm a big fan of Anne Lamott's Bird By Bird. And she does it so brilliantly! But I struggled. Then I muddled through. This is what came out.
From the time I was six, when a family friend gave me a leather-bound blank book and invited me to write in it, I have been a writer. I was offered my first publishing deal when I was 11 (I turned it down -- they were my private stories, after all. Sheesh!).
Grounding
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Comparison Is A Killer. Cut It Out.
Danielle LaPorte, December 4, 2010
From the shape of our cells to the swirl of our fingerprints, each human is profoundly, almost incomprehensibly unique. In all the eons of time, amongst trillions of human eggs that have been fertilized and hatched ... there is only one you: microscopically remarkable, positively unrepeatable, original, and...beyond compare.
Role models are useful. They are lighthouses when dream-chasing gets cloudy, they are proof of stamina and magic. But emulation is tricky terrain. I have a friend, an aspiring novelist and brilliant writer in her own right, who said to me once that she wanted to be the "Canadian Anne Lamott,"
I said, "Why don't you just be the global You?"
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Eat, Pray, YOU: An Evening With Elizabeth Gilbert
Lissa Rankin, September 28, 2009
Me, Liz Gilbert, and Pinkie friend Lynn Stasior
Blissed Out
Lissa Rankin, November 9, 2008
I shocked Yoni today. (Have I told you about Yoni yet? She's my inner feminine- my vagina, uterus, ovaries, and little voice inside. We've become friends, and we chat from time to time.) I didn’t mean to, but I think I snuck up on Yoni, taking her a little off guard, when she was reading a book or maybe watching some old Sex and the City reruns.
Live, Love, Heal
Lissa Rankin, November 9, 2008Who’d have thunk that I’d have to study more, after twelve years of medical education? Don’t get me wrong. I knew I’d have to put in my CME hours (continuing medical education). I’d like to say I read all of my journals, but truth be told, I only read some of them, cherry picked for the articles that tickle my fancy of the day. (We do get LOTS of journals).
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