33 | Anne Lamott: Make Your Writing Fears Work For YOU
The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna
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Are You a Young Writer?
Jeff Yang: "I feel like I'm still having trouble giving myself permission to tell the truth sometimes because I hear my mom right here telling me not to write this down" He asks how writers can get past that as they're writing their memoirs or screenplays. Author Annie Leibovitz says it's important to foreground the truth, even if it might hurt people we love. She also tells students you own every single thing that happened to you and no one in your family is going to be glad to know you're working on a memoir.
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