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Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
by: Anne Lamott

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 808.02
EAN: 9780385480017
ISBN: 0385480016
Label: Anchor
Manufacturer: Anchor
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 239
Publication Date: September 01, 1995
Publisher: Anchor
Release Date: September 01, 1995
Sales Rank: 412
Studio: Anchor

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Some Instructions on Writing and Life

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Think you've got a book inside of you? Anne Lamott isn't afraid to help you let it out. She'll help you find your passion and your voice, beginning from the first really crummy draft to the peculiar letdown of publication. Readers will be reminded of the energizing books of writer Natalie Goldberg and will be seduced by Lamott's witty take on the reality of a writer's life, which has little to do with literary parties and a lot to do with jealousy, writer's block and going for broke with each paragraph. Marvelously wise and best of all, great reading.

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- fantastic
Besides being a thorough exploration of writing, it's a memoir with insight into both writing and life.

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- Not just another how-to textbook; a must for the writer wanna-be
A cursory look at the index might have one thinking this is just another step-by-step guide to a successful, publishable writing career...with chapters neatly organized by "character, plot, dialogue..." Ever so subtley, with unexpected laughs around every turn, the first chapter pulled me in as if I was a kid listening to a good friend tell me a crazy story propped on an easy lawnchair in my own backyard.
I adore Lamott's down and dirty frankness about the odds of publishing, and hysterically saw myself (a hopeful wanna-be writer) as one of her eager if not naive students. What an incredibly refreshing way she has of 'teaching' "us" through the most satiric, sometimes moronic, always satisfying stories and examples.
I read much of the book on an airplane and caught myself laughing out loud at times. During the poignant and carefully observed and recorded nursing home scene, I had to hide my watery eyes, ... Read More

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- Pep in your step!
This is a put a pep-in-your-step writing book. It's really a book with instructions on having a WRITING life. I'm still in the thick of it but I've never laughed so hard or felt so motivated by a book to write.

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- helps the author, not the reader
The best advice is in the title, which is, in other words, "step by step." I can't remember if it is this book, or "Plan B," in which the author recounts taking rolls of dimes from an older black woman in the church she attended, even after she didn't need them any more, with the rationalization that it somehow helped the older black woman to give Lamott her meager savings. She can't even disguise her opportunist ways in her writing. This book is actually pretty bleak, to me. Just because Lamott has kinky hair and feels like an outcast, she attended black churches. How condescending to the members there: "I'm one of you because I feel like the lowest member of society and can't manage to get my act together. Oh, by the way, give me money because I had a child out of wedlock. That makes me so unusual." Lamott idolizes her father, who drank like a fish himeself, and allowed her as a minor to drink and hang out ... Read More

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