Bird by bird : some instructions on writing and life
Anne Lamott (Author)
"Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report on birds written that he'd had three months to write [It] was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books on birds, immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead. Then my father sat down beside him, put his arm around my brother's shoulder, and said, 'Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.'"
Handbook
xxxi, 239 pages ; 21 cm
9780679435204, 9780385480017, 0679435204, 0385480016
29791864
Writing. Getting started
Short assignments
Shitty first drafts
Perfectionism
School lunches
Polaroids
Character
Plot
Dialogue
Set design
False starts
Plot treatment
How do you know when you're done?
The writing frame of mind. Looking around
The moral point of view
Broccoli
Radio Station KFKD
Jealousy
Help along the way. Index cards
Calling around
Writing groups
Someone to read your drafts
Letters
Writer's block
Publication and other reasons to write. Writing a present
Finding your voice
Giving
Publication
The last class