Bird by Bird Some Instructions on Writing and Life

And if you don't know Anne Lamott's work, she is a very prolific and successful author who has written books like Operating Instructions and Bird by Bird and Tender Mercies, many, many works of fiction.

Bird by Bird about writing.

My older brother hated school and wasn't very good at it because he didn't care and he had his bird paper and you have the whole semester to do that and it was due the next day. This was a Sunday and it was due on Monday and he hadn't started he couldn't start it was too much like any writing project you start it's it's like an unassaulted ice flow and he was in tears.

So my older brother's a tough guy was a tough fourth grader and my dad who was a writer sat down with him and put his arm around him and said just take it bird by bird buddy.

And he taught him to read a little bit about chickadees for instance and then in one in his own words, which is the only way you can share what's inside of you to share with us yeah you write tell us about chickadees and then find an illustration. Okay next we're gonna do great blue herons I want you to read a couple pages of Audubon on great blue herons and then I want you to tell me in your own words about great blue herons.

So that's where it comes from.

Anything by Anne Lamott. I think Bird by Bird is a really great book by her. I think she's just a beautiful writer. She writes a lot about this topic and she does it in many of her books.

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