Bring on the tough stuff - there’s not just one right answer.
- What does it take to be a writer? What did John Steinbeck and J. K. Rowling have going for them that made them rich and famous?
- What can we learn about life from writing? What can we learn about writing from life?
- How can you tell a great story?
- Is the process of writing similar to a lone genius laboring over some Frankenstein-like project in the basement? Or is it really something that involves a community, too?
- How can you get rich (or, at least, famous) as a writer? Or is that the wrong question?
- Why should you be a writer? Is there something writing adds to your life, whether you do it professionally or just in your diary?
- Why does Lamott find writing so satisfying, even though she complains like crazy about having to sit down and do it every day?
- What does it take to keep writing over the long haul?
- What can you get out of writing, right now? Or at least right now after you work hard every morning on it for a month?