Random Mutterings (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
Image via Wikipedia One of my favorite advice books for writing and for life is Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird. Lamott is funny and doesn’t know what she’s going to do with her life either, but still she is out there and she is writing. The title comes from some advice that Lamott’s father gave her [...]
Copywriting UK | TENFOUR blog (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
TENFOUR likes books about writing. Not just about copywriting - the day job - but also about creative writing, story writing and the like. We’ve come across a really good book about story writing recently: Bird by Bird, by Anne Lamott. This one’s not the usual two hundred pages on systematically plotting your piece and developing characters. [...]
Meta Watershed (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
(Maggie in Calcutta, 1956) In 2001 I had the chance to hear one of my favorite writers, Anne Lamott, speak at the annual Art and Soul Conference at Baylor University. The talk she gave that night altered my life in more than one way, but what I want to share with you here is how she began her Q & A session. She said something like this: "I'm opening the floor to questions. If what you want to do is...
a peek inside the fish bowl (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
I can’t remember where I read it (although I think it might have been Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird, which was recommended to me by one of my favourite people) but in it, writer’s block was explained not as a block, which implies a long road featuring a monolithic and impassable obstacle, but as an [...]
The Longstockings (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
With less than two weeks to go until my due date, I'm furiously trying to finish revisions to my WIP as well as get mentally ready for this whole motherhood thing. So I was delighted when an author friend of mine gave me a copy of Anne Lamott's Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year to read. It was one of those times when you are reading the exact book you need to read at the right...
Silicon Valley Moms Blog (Free subscription) | 06/30/2008
... cross posted from our sister site, 50-Something Moms Blog. Lately I've been thinking about Sam Lamott, the son of best-selling author Anne Lamott. I don't know of many women who haven't read Anne's Traveling Mercies, her collection of essays...
LizaWasHere (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
I’ve just finished reading The Maternal is Political: Women Writers at the Intersection of Motherhood & Social Change, edited by Shari MacDonald Strong. The list of contributing writers is amazing — writers like Anne Lamott, Barbara Kingsolver, Rebecca Walker, Susie Bright, Anna Quindlen, and politicians like Nancy Pelosi and the late Benazir Bhutto. There are also [...]
The Fire Ant Gazette (Free subscription) | 06/04/2008
Anne Lamott's latest set of essays on faith is more of the same. From my perspective, that's not a Good Thing.
Ornamental (Free subscription) | 05/31/2008
how does one begin to write about such an odys- sey, an adventure of epic proportions? in the words of author anne lamott (or, to be more precise,those of her dad), i'll do it "bird by bird". or picture by...
The Blogging Parson (Free subscription) | 05/28/2008
I have been reading two wonderful books by Anne Lamott: Bird by Bird - a terrific book about writing; and her spirutual memoir Traveling Mercies. I won't review them or anything: but they are books to change your life by.
Trying to follow (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
I should have read Traveling Mercies a while ago, it's been on my reading list, I just never got around to it. Anyways, my wife has been a reading machine, and I had recently recommended Lamott, which she devoured in less then a week. She enjoyed it so I figured I should read it next. Lamott [...]
Jezebel (Free subscription) | 04/30/2008
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TV Squad (Free subscription) | 04/29/2008
Filed under: Late Night , TV Royalty , Programming , TV on DVD , Celebrities , Talk Show , Reality-Free Here's who's on the late night shows tonight. Charlie Rose: TBA The Daily Show: Newt Gingrich The Colbert Report: Anne Lamott The Late Show with David Letterman: Robert Downey, Jr. and Alicia Keys Jay Leno: Dr. Phil and Natasha Bedingfield Jimmy Kimmel Live: Vanessa Williams and Cinematic Orchestra...
Book Chronicle (Free subscription) | 04/25/2008
While reading Anne Lamott's Bird by Bird I also sank my teeth into Author Plotnik’s Spunk and Bite. If Bird by Bird attempts to serve the basics then Spunk and Bite is the garnish, the raspberry sauce drizzled over a slice of cheesecake. For those of you familiar with perhaps America’s most famous style manual [...]
Art Dog Blog (Free subscription) | 04/19/2008
I wish I was a better writer. Or maybe I " long to be a better writer", or maybe as I recline here on my comfy sofa "my mind turns to the timeless art of writing". Yea whatever, it is something I should work on. A few years ago I read a great book by Anne Lamott called Bird by Bird. She states that "The very first thing I tell my new students on the first day of a workshop is that good writing is...
