Happy Birthday, Anne Lamott

I learned from today's writer 's yearbook that today is a novelist in the Bay Area and a birthday for non - fiction writers.

I mentioned my love of her work over and over, but it is worth sharing some of my favorite suggestions for young writers. (Of course) Look at her concept of "poor first draft" from Bird by Bird.

For me and most other writers I know, writing is not very enthusiastic. In fact, the only way I can write something is to write a real, very bad first draft.

The first draft is a child draft and knows that no one can see it, so you can shape it later. You should just let this child-like part pass through every sound and vision to the page. If one of the characters wishes to say "So, Mr. Poopy Pants?", You leave it to her. No one will see it. If a child is truly sentimental and wants to enter an emotionally emotional field, you let him. As these six crazy pages may have some good things, just write it all on paper, you may never get it through more reasonable and mature means Hmm. There may be something in the last line of the last paragraph on page 6, but it is very beautiful and wild. What direction are you going to write now, more or less? This goal can only be accomplished without first passing through the first 5 pages and half pages.

Ramot also mentioned how to place a 1 inch square photo frame on the desk. Whenever she is confused, I pick it up and remember that all I started is filled with 1 word 1 inch.

I think that she will choose this title, but Anne Lamott is the first hacker of this order. Her attitude towards the writer is realistic, realistic, and robs it from a spurious quill that grew up a lot of us. Anyone I know reads her, I think that this is part of the most moving advice they have received, and most of us often return to that arm.

I handed it to me on my birthday and Andrathn's "Bird by Bird" is probably the favorite book I read about what I have written so far. From the solid academic point of view, the subject of writing is much less, more about writing as a person. Writing passion - a passion that might hurt. I soon understood the thrills of seeing my prints. It provides some kind of unique verification: you are in print. People who are chaotic but who are not confined in the heart of the strobe but who know that this impulse is somewhere outside of you, a little mucus - for example from your little hole? Watching your prints is a very wonderful concept: you can gather so much attention without having to actually show up somewhere

Anne Ramot knows to write. She is a writer of seven novels (one on business trip) and nine nonfiction works. Many of them are bestsellers. In her book on writing techniques, published in 1994, Bird by Bird tells Ramot about the first draft writing, writing team, writer's blockade, how to know when the end was over. Her comments, suggestions, insights are very precious

This requires some search, but I will narrow the origin of this idea to a very exciting article by Bird by Bird (1994) author Anne Lamott, a tutorial on how to write and manage the artist's life I could do it. Specifically, it comes from the section titled "Shitty First Drafts". Whether by professional sending hundreds of words a day or amateurs wrote in Blue Moon, any writer knows this kind of struggle. Okay, it may not be all writers. I am convinced that there are several writers who have never written my own ideas on paper (I am lucky enough to know some people). But most of us think it is difficult to start losing these sentences.