How I Close the Door on the Critics

And tease out my Muse

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“Write shitty first drafts.”

This great wisdom comes from Anne Lamott in Bird by Bird, a writing book where she takes us readers inside her head and we get to see how similar her inner committee’s rants and raves are compared to ours.

No one’s over my shoulder. At least not in the flesh.