Bird by Bird

“Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott, also not my genre. These are both mostly focused on fiction.”

“Bird by bird her classic book on writing help”

“I am going to sit down and reread Bird by bird in fact which I've read at least I would say a dozen times”

“My Philosophy is Bird by bird an Lamont shout out if you have you read an Lamont's book Bird by bird no oh so an we read very different books is what I'm discovered I'm a nonfiction guy and I'm mostly a Fiction guy”

“and then Ann Lamont has a book Bird by Bird yeah which is a bit more of like a practical warm you up to writing books”

“And it's "Bird by Bird" by Anne Lamott, which is just a delightful read and is a good reminder for any procrastinators to just break down your work and do it bird by bird.”

“Bird by bird instructions on writing and Life by Anne lamott. It's incredible. so touching really great. also I think product managers should be great writers so love that”

“in the same way that I think of like you know an Lam's Bird by bird it's a book about writing that's kind of about life”

“in the same way that I think of like you know an Lam's Bird by bird it's a book about writing that's kind of about life I think of this as a book about love that's kind of about life”

“I mean, Bird by Bird is the best one. I mean, it's the one that I've gone back to the most because the part of that book where she talks about how perfectionism makes you think that if you're perfect, you're never going to have to die, but you are going to die.”

“Well, I wrote a lot about writer's block in Bird by Bird because I think it's a misnomer.”

“And I use that with all of my bird by bird writing workshops because it's about putting on a better pair of glasses and waking up.”

“And so the first thing I say to my bird by bird workshops is you got to stop not writing”

“With the first draft, you know, in Bird by Bird, I said there's three drafts.”

“Now, in bird by bird, this is before cell phones, I always had my students write carry a pen in their back pocket”

“I mean, we always in in good writing and in bird by bird, I always say, you know, write a ton of dialogue and then take most of it out.”

“The character, I wrote about this a lot in Bird by Bird. Um there's something at stake.”

“I've had a couple of books with a with the word bird in them imperfect birds and bird by bird”

“It's like there's a um chapter in Bird by Bird on Polaroids and it talks about how because when I was coming up and when I wrote Bird by Bird, we took Polaroids.”

“and the teacher got to hold up bird by bird and all that and I did my thing poopy first drafts and bird by bird and and all of that”

“She told her students this great formula that I I wrote about in Bird by Bird. It's AB Dce.”

“you know Bird by bird is it okay if I tell the story”

“and another another thing that I think helped people when they read Bird by bird was the chapter on perfectionism”

“so in Bird by bird there's a whole chapter on K [ __ ] radio kfkd and without a lot of help and a lot of transformation and healing K [ __ ] radio is on 247”

“so all of my books including Bird by bird and operating instructions everything has to do with that coming into radical self-care and becoming my own priority”

“and that's why I think the chapter in Bird by bird is something that people so relate to”

“This is an anecdote I love from Bird by Bird where Anne Lamott will just, she sort of is absorbing her world and she keeps an index card of observations in her back pocket”

“Annie Lamont is famous for writing bird by bird which is one of the best books ever written about the craft of writing”

“okay I can't start yet because I need to like there's one more book I should probably read to figure out how to write and the the answer is there's no correct way to write there these books are like Stephen King's on writing and lamas bird by bird these are amazing books that helped me be a writer and”

“we were talking off thing about Ann Lamont's bird by bird. She has the great chapter called the shitty first draft that many people are familiar with.”

“it's like look if they wanted to come off better they I I forget who said this but um it's a who wrote Bird by bird oh Ann Lamont she was like if they wanted to come off better in your work they should have been nicer to you”

“And so what I did was is I started reading books about people, memoirs, autobiographies about people who had done extraordinary things and really decided that those were going to be my mentors. I was going to take my lessons from those books. And it was everything from Shoe Dog by Phil Knight to Bird by Bird by Ann Lamont”