The Writing Frame of Mind: From Bird by Bird

by Anne Lamott

A Vintage Shorts selection. • To the enormous challenges of being a writer, Anne Lamott offers invaluable advice and encouragement, which more than a million scribes and scribblers of all ages and abilities have been inspired by for a quarter century.
 
In this selection from her essential volume, Bird by Bird, Lamott tenderly recommends and outlines the qualities that every writer should learn to intuition, attention, morality, and more.
 
An ebook short.

Genres: Writing, Nonfiction

32 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 29, 2019

About the author

Anne Lamott is an author of several novels and works of non-fiction. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, her non-fiction works are largely autobiographical, with strong doses of self-deprecating humor and covering such subjects as alcoholism, single motherhood, and Christianity. She appeals to her fans because of her sense of humor, her deeply felt insights, and her outspoken views on topics such as her left-of-center politics and her unconventional Christian faith. She is a graduate of Drew College Preparatory School in San Francisco, California. Her father, Kenneth Lamott, was also a writer and was the basis of her first novel Hard Laughter.

Lamott's life is documented in Freida Lee Mock's 1999 documentary Bird by Bird: A Film Portrait of Writer Anne Lamott.

Reviews

[Susan]

Very disappointing

[Sherril Ellis]

Anything written by Anne Lamott comes from her creative sensitivity. She writes with integrity and isn't afraid to expose her own human foibles or shortcomings. I highly recommend this book and her original Bird by Bird. I have gifted Bird by Bird to many fellow writers and writing students and I reread it periodically.

[Tina]

A brilliant read on the truth of writing. I love so many things she says in this book. Especially love the section on characters.

[Maryanne]

pretty old now

[Sindhu S]

This is a small section of the book Bird by Bird, which I have reviewed here.