10am Amy Poehler "Writing is Hard-- A Preface) by Shannon Takeuchi

first names

2025-01-27 18:36:46 UTC

quote

"word word word.....word word"

1 golden line

1 problem passage

Peter Nora

2025-01-27 18:39:21 UTC

Golden Line: "Honestly, I have moments when I...I just want to finish it"

Problem Passage: "I Thought about asking Hilliary Clinton... publishing her own book."

Nathan & Eduardo

2025-01-27 18:40:32 UTC

Golden line: "At this very moment I am attempting to write this preface while my oldest boy, Archie, sleeps next to me."

Problem passage: Every book written by men and women with children under the age of six should have a “sleep deprived” sticker.”

Aztlalt, Giovanni

2025-01-27 18:41:19 UTC

Golden Line: “I haven’t lived a full enough life to look back on, but i’m too old to get by on being pithy and cute.”

Problem Passage: “I believe that great people do things before they are ready.”

Ciel, Justice

2025-01-27 18:41:50 UTC

Golden Line: "Authors pretend their stories were always shiny and perfect and just waiting to be written. The truth is, writing is this: hard and boring and occasionally great but usually not"

Problem Passage: "It's clear to me now that I had no business agreeing to write this book"

Ravi, Kaylee, Monica

2025-01-27 18:42:02 UTC

Golden line - ”Well, the first thing we do is take our brain out and put it in a drawer” (Pohler xv)

Problem passage - “You have to care about your work more than anyone else does” (Pohler xii)

Alex G, Sylvana, Lauren

2025-01-27 18:42:55 UTC

Golden Line: “You do it because the doing of it is the thing. The doing is the thing. The talking and worrying and thinking is not the thing.”

Problem Passage: “Except when it comes to celebrities without makeup. I want my celebrities to be beautiful. I don’t need to see them pumping my gas.”

Derek, Alex, Peter, Hailey

2025-01-27 18:42:57 UTC

Golden - “The truth is, writing is this: hard and boring and occasionally great but usually not.”

Problem - “I want my celebrities to look beautiful. I don’t need to see them pumping gas.”

Victoria Uriostegui & Rosalei Broussard

2025-01-27 18:43:33 UTC

GL: “I also learned that writing topless tends to relax me.”

PP: “Everyone lies about writing…how easy or hard it was”

Da’Riyah and Beverly

2025-01-27 18:44:37 UTC

Golden line: “Writing is hard…mysterious and unfair”

Problem Passage: “The truth is, writing is this: hard and boring and occasionally great but usually not”