Anne Lamott & Neil Allen: Write Toward the Really Real
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The Sounds True Podcast Network. Don't write towards irony. Don't write towards like snark or loftiness. Write towards compassion. You know, write towards real, right towards the real.
It's like anything that you master in life. The point of mastery isn't virtuosity. The point of mastery is there comes a time when you don't have to try as hard anymore. Welcome friends. In this episode of Insights at the Edge, my guests are Annie Lamont and her personal husband, Neil Allen.
We're talking about their new book, Good Writing. 36 ways to improve your sentences. Neil Allen is a writer, a spiritual coach and speaker. He's a former journalist and corporate executive, self described hack writer, someone who can write on cue, on deadline, He's the author of Shapes of Truth and Better Days.
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