How to write: Stop not writing. Get and keep your butt in chair. Write really bad small sections of the whole—passages, moments, episodes, memories—til you have an incredibly shitty 1st draft. Then take out the boring parts, the lies and pretensions. Then write a better 2nd draft
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Im curious do you write a crappy first draft onto an outline you feel good about? Or is the structure itself similarly "shitty"?
Can't speak for @annelamott, but yes: I may have a lot of structural notes, but in the process of writing discover so much more that I realize the structure was wrong (sometimes very badly wrong).
