I just started reading a book called “Bird by Bird” by Anne Lamott. It is a book about writing. I literally just cracked it open yesterday and in the title alone is a lesson worth sharing.
This anecdote is written on the back of the book also in greater detail in the intro of the book. I was going to summarize it but here is the full quote.
“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 about 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.””
3 responses to “Bird by Bird”
It’s a great book not just about the creative writing process, but creating in general. Mostly it’s that you just have to sit down and do it. Make the work.
Awesome. I’m really liking it, it’s funny too.
Yes, anything by Anne Lamott, highly recommended…