EVERY DAY

A ROCK

                                JANE FONDA SAYS YOU MUST EXERCISE EVERYDAY.  ANNE LAMOTT SAYS YOU MUST WRITE EVERY DAY.  JOHN HALLIDAY SAYS YOU MUST DRAW AND PAINT EVERY DAY.  IT'S BEST TO DO THEM FIRST THING.  HOW CAN YOU?
                               WHAT ABOUT EAT,PRAY,LOVE?  WHERE DOES THAT FIT IN?  WHEN DO YOU JUST HAVE A ZEN MOMENT?  I GUESS WHEN YOU'RE DOING THESE THINGS.  I GUESS IT BEATS HEAVY DRINKING AND DRUGS.
                                 ANNE LAMOTT'S WRITER FATHER DIED AT 55.  HE WROTE EVERY DAY STARTING AT 6 A.M..  AT 12, HE WOULD READ THE PAPER WITH HIS WIFE AND HAVE LUNCH.  THEN IT WAS BACK TO WRITING.  SHE DIVORCED HIM AND LEFT HIM WITH THE KIDS.  ANN LAMOTT WAS MORTIFIED THAT AN ARTICLE IN THE LOCAL NEWSPAPER TOLD ABOUT HOW HER FATHER DRANK AND SMOKED POT WITH HIS FRIENDS.  SHE WISHED SHE COULD HAVE A CONVENTIONAL FAMILY LIKE EVERYONE ELSE SHE KNEW.
                                      HER HIGH SCHOOL TEACHER READ AN ARTICLE HER FATHER WROTE TO THE ENGLISH CLASS.  IT SAID THAT CALIFORNIA IS TOO LEISURE ORIENTED AND THAT'S WHY PEOPLE LEAD SUCH POINTLESS LIVES.

AND A HARD SPACE

                                         ANNE LAMOTT SAYS HAVE A WRITING SCHEDULE,WRITE SHORT ASSIGNMENTS AND THEN REWRITE,REWRITE,REWRITE.  THAT'S THE SECRET.  YOU'LL GET PUBLISHED WHEN YOU'RE READY TO BE PUBLISHED.  HER WRITING STUDENTS JUST STARE AT HER IN RESPONSE.