Bird By Bird

"Bird By Bird" by Anne Lamott, this book has four parts.  Each part is broken down into ways a writer can



 write a good story.  She goes from first drafts to publication. of your novel.  She doesn't explain how to write a fantasy novel, or mystery just the novel parts in all its parts.  The first few chapters are devoted to her family and her history of how she herself began a writer in the book trade business. But it shows her work in the field of writing.   She also explains her relationship with her literary agent  and publisher.  There we get insights in what to expect if we desire to be published  She tells it like it is and what we need to know from the inside out.  How to get there if you dare to publish your writing as a novel.  With all this advice in her book she does also offer that writing takes talents and skills that have be learned.    She explains by doing writing daily  and continuously we acquire the ability to write well.  These writing done daily will give us something worth publishing.   They will sell.  "Bird By Bird", I wanted to get it done out of the way of my other reading  and when I first began read the book  After reading the book the title I recall long after reading the novel in its entirety.    This novel lights the way to good writing and forming a great foundation of the writing trades.