“Butt in Chair; secret of life.”

Anne Lamott was interviewed on On Point last week. Near the end of the interview, a caller asked her about the writing process—moving beyond procrastination, having compassion for yourself when/if you succumb to it.

The part of her response that stuck out to me was:

“It’s such a blessing to have been given the hunger and thirst to be a writer. To become a writer. To become a person of reading. To become a part of the literary world. To be a person who believes in story.”

She goes on to talk about how she urges herself to sit down and write.  Hence, the quote from her in the post title for today.

  

Per Anne Lamott, from now on, I pledge to say Kaa, sit.

Butt in chair,

write a bad draft,

finish a short assignment,

and then go on with your life.

 

Try it. It's liberating.