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

„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.'”
With this basic instruction always in mind, Anne Lamott returns to offer us a new gift: a step-by-step guide on how to write and on how to manage the writer's life. From "Getting Started,' with „Short Assignments,” through „Shitty First Drafts,” "Character," „Plot,” "Dialogue." all the way from „False Starts” to „How Do You Know When You're Done?” Lamott encourages, instructs, and inspires. She discusses „Writers Block,” "Writing Groups," and „Publication.”… (tovább)

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Anchor, 1995
238 oldal · puhatáblás · ISBN: 9780385480017

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Anne Lamott: Bird by Bird

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

What a cute book!
AL has a wicked sense of humour, I guess there are people who don't like it but I dig it. At times she went on too long about things, but it was okay.
I think the book title should go on without the „and”: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing Life. It is a funny, witty book about someone's life who is a writer and holds writing workshops. If anyone needs practical advice on writing, it's not a good book, but if you already write you'll find a lot to resonate with!
The book itself had a great cover, I mean the paper itself, it is soft in a good way and sensual to touch. I loved to hold it.


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Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious. When you’re conscious and writing from a place of insight and simplicity and real caring about the truth, you have the ability to throw the lights on for your reader.

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

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I often ask my students to scribble down in class the reason they want to write, why they are in my class, what is propelling them to do this sometimes-excruciating, sometimes-boring work. And over and over, they say in effect, 'I will not be silenced again.' They were good children, who often felt invisible and who saw some awful stuff. But at some point they stopped telling what they saw because when they did, they were punished.

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

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E.L. Doctorow said once said that 'Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.' You don't have to see where you're going, you don't have to see your destination or everything you will pass along the way. You just have to see two or three feet ahead of you. This is right up there with the best advice on writing, or life, I have ever heard.

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

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Close your eyes and get quiet for a minute, until the chatter starts up. Then isolate one of the voices and imagine the person speaking as a mouse. Pick it up by the tail and drop it into a mason jar. Then isolate another voice, pick it up by the tail, drop it in the jar. And so on. Drop in any high-maintenance parental units, drop in any contractors, lawyers, colleagues, children, anyone who is whining in your head. Then put the lid on, and watch all these mouse people clawing at the glass, jabbering away, trying to make you feel like shit because you won’t do what they want—won’t give them more money, won’t be more successful, won’t see them more often. Then imagine that there is a volume-control button on the bottle. Turn it all the way up for a minute, and listen to the stream of angry, neglected, guilt-mongering voices. Then turn it all the way down and watch the frantic mice lunge at the glass, trying to get to you. Leave it down, and get back to your shitty first draft.

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

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Everything you need is in your head and memories, in all that your senses provide, in all that you’ve seen and thought and absorbed. There in your unconscious, where the real creation goes on, is the little kid or the Dr. Seuss creature in the cellar, arranging and stitching things together. When this being is ready to hand things up to you, to give you a paragraph or a sudden move one character makes that will change the whole course of your novel, you will be entrusted with it.

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

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The great writers keep writing about the cold dark place within, the water under a frozen lake or the secluded, camouflaged hole. The light they shine on this hole, this pit, helps us cut away or step around the brush and brambles; then we can dance around the rim of the abyss, holler into it, measure it, throw rocks in it, and still not fall in. It can no longer swallow us up. And we can get on with things.

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

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One can find in writing a perfect focus for life. It offers challenge and delight and agony and commitment.

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

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Flannery O’Connor said that anyone who survived childhood has enough material to write for the rest of his or her life.

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

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[…]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, which 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.”

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

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Say to yourself in the kindest possible way, Look, honey, all we’re going to do for now is to write a description of the river at sunrise, or the young child swimming in the pool at the club, or the first time the man sees the woman he will marry. That is all we are going to do for now. We are just going to take this bird by bird. But we are going to finish this one short assignment.

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


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