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Bird by bird : some instructions on writing and life / Anne Lamott.

By: Lamott, Anne
Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Anchor Books, 1995Edition: First Anchor Books editionDescription: xxxi, 239 pages ; 21 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0385480016Subject(s): Authorship -- Handbooks, manuals, etcDDC classification: 808/.02 LOC classification: PN147 | .L315 1995
Contents:
Writing. Getting started -- Short assignments -- Shitty first drafts -- Perfectionism -- School lunches -- Polaroids -- Character -- Plot -- Dialogue -- Set design -- False starts -- Plot treatment -- How do you know when you're done? -- The writing frame of mind. Looking around -- The moral point of view -- Broccoli -- Radio Station KFKD -- Jealousy -- Help along the way. Index cards -- Calling around -- Writing groups -- Someone to read your drafts -- Letters -- Writer's block -- Publication and other reasons to write. Writing a present -- Finding your voice -- Giving -- Publication --The last class.

Originally published: New York : Pantheon Books, 1994.

Writing. Getting started -- Short assignments -- Shitty first drafts -- Perfectionism -- School lunches -- Polaroids -- Character -- Plot -- Dialogue -- Set design -- False starts -- Plot treatment -- How do you know when you're done? -- The writing frame of mind. Looking around -- The moral point of view -- Broccoli -- Radio Station KFKD -- Jealousy -- Help along the way. Index cards -- Calling around -- Writing groups -- Someone to read your drafts -- Letters -- Writer's block -- Publication and other reasons to write. Writing a present -- Finding your voice -- Giving -- Publication --The last class.

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