Writing As A Debt of Honor - a full-length talk by Anne Lamott

In our first writing retreat featuring Anne Lamott in 2022, she delivered a powerful talk on why those who feel a calling to write must see it as a debt of honor.
She asks us to stay with the job and heal, persist, and grow until we are offering ourselves to life and the world in this way.
Anne is a leader in our A Writing Room Collective program and community for writers and those who want to be.
Learn more and join us here: awritingroom.com/

[@Gemstonetarot]

How generous and valuable this is. No-one puts it better and without ego 🙏♥

[@amidemanila816]

Thank you for this Ms. Anne Lamott

[@lisamclain2549]

Oh, Anne, you say and right things that I am so deeply grateful to have heard and read. Things I would not have missed for the world. Thank you

[@sagienadasen1648]

Namaste! Thank you for reminding me that my creativity is just waiting for me.

[@MrIWroteThat]

I am astonished how clearly she is describing exactly what I am experiencing in rediscovering poetry these last 10 months in my middle age.

[@alexathegr8]

She’s a light in this world. Amazing, thank you for this.

[@lisamclain2549]

Oh my God, right as in WRITE! I have so got to learn to proofread before I hit comment.🤪

[@carlasienna8683]

I approach all my art, poetry, visual art, performance, singing, etc. Differently. It's not hard. T flows like stream of conciousness with very LITTLE editing. I learn by writing, not reading about writing or going to workshops that say that writing is very hard and it's going to go very badly.

[@logansparks3200]

Do we understand why they were walking across the room with just a foot-long pice of fishing wire and what that would mean? Love Anne Lamott.