Summary Of Thomas Lamott

Lamott explains how writing for her is like creating a present for someone. She wrote most of her stories based on her experiences such as her father’s death, her friend Pammy’s death, and her son witnessing the death of a friend’s baby. For finding your own voice, writers should use their own material and experiences to shape the style they want. Though having an author that you look up to is ok, writers often times try to sound like the author they admire and it doesn’t help make their work original or unique. Lamott says there are two things that put her in the spirit to give: giving a book to a patient in the hospital and being given a book by other writers and then writing a book back to them. I like how she connects giving to writing