Bird by bird anne5/30/2023 ![]() (She employs a more pungent adjective.) More than that, she says that crappy first drafts are unavoidable. Lamott also gives you permission to write crappy first drafts. Another metaphor she applies is of a one-inch picture frame - that’s the range of vision you should apply to achieve your focused, detailed objective. ![]() Then, after you’ve scribbled or typed it, rinse and repeat. Lamott, author of several novels, writer of columns and reviews, and a writing teacher, shares her offbeat wisdom in this book (laced with f-bombs and sh-grenades) whose title is a nod to her writer father, who once told Lamott’s brother, paralyzed with writer’s block on the eve of a deadline for a science report, to take it “bird by bird.”Īppropriately enough, her first piece of advice is to think not about the enormous bulk of the unfinished novel or memoir or other tome looming before you, but about the anecdote or description or dialogue or passage you’re mulling over right now. ![]() If you read Ann Lamott’s book Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life - and if you would like to think of yourself as a novelist or a memoirist, you are strongly advised to do so - be prepared for her disarming, slightly unhinged candor, for relentless reminders that writing is a labor of love (with the emphasis on labor), and for profanity. ![]()
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