I listened to this one twice while I borrowed it from the library. No quotation marks because I'm not sure I'm captured in direct quotes properly. But these are the notes I took as I listened.

Good writing is about telling the truth.

Writing is mindfulness - being present.

Write as much as fits in a one inch picture frame. One encounter. Just deal with what's right in front of you - a 1 inch piece of a story to tell.


Perfectionism is a mean, frozen form of idealism while messes are the artists true friend.

Your job is to see people as they really are, and to do this you have to know who you are in the most compassionate possible sense. Then you can recognize others.

If you start to look around, you will start to see. When what we see catches us off guard and when we write it as realistically and openly as possible it offers hope.

You get your intuition back when you make space for it. Get quiet and listen. It's hard to stop controlling, but you can do it.