So many people feel the pull to write—but don’t know where to start. What would you say to someone who’s in that boat?

Anne: The first thing I do with all of my students is encourage them to write a long, numbered list of every memory they have that they’ve carried with them. Great prompts are your very first holiday, your very first classrooms. Systematically go through the Filofax of your brain looking for memories that come up. Get them down on paper. – Anne Lamott