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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 808.02
EAN: 9780385480017
ISBN: 0385480016
Label: Anchor
Manufacturer: Anchor
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 239
Publication Date: September 01, 1995
Publisher: Anchor
Release Date: September 01, 1995
Sales Rank: 1052
Studio: Anchor
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Some Instructions on Writing and Life
Amazon.com Review:
Think you've got a book inside of you? Anne Lamott isn'tafraid to help you let it out. She'll help you find your passion andyour voice, beginning from the first really crummy draft to thepeculiar letdown of publication. Readers will be reminded of theenergizing books of writer Natalie Goldberg and will be seduced byLamott's witty take on the reality of a writer's life, which haslittle to do with literary parties and a lot to do with jealousy,writer's block and going for broke with each paragraph.Marvelouslywise and best of all, great reading.
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Rating:  - Teacher resource
Book delivered promptly and in good condition.Good teacher resource for writing.Quick read.
Rating:  - fantastic
Besides being a thorough exploration of writing, it's a memoir with insight into both writing and life.
Rating: - Not just another how-to textbook; a must for the writer wanna-be
A cursory look at the index might have one thinking this is just another step-by-step guide to a successful, publishable writing career...with chapters neatly organized by "character, plot, dialogue..." Ever so subtley, with unexpected laughs around every turn, the first chapter pulled me in as if I was a kid listening to a good friend tell me a crazy story propped on an easy lawnchair in my own backyard.
I adore Lamott's down and dirty frankness about the odds of publishing, and hysterically ... Read More
Rating: - Pep in your step!
This is a put a pep-in-your-step writing book. It's really a book with instructions on having a WRITING life. I'm still in the thick of it but I've never laughed so hard or felt so motivated by a book to write.
Rating:  - helps the author, not the reader
The best advice is in the title, which is, in other words, "step by step."I can't remember if it is this book, or "Plan B," in which the author recounts taking rolls of dimes from an older black woman in the church she attended, even after she didn't need them any more, with the rationalization that it somehow helped the older black woman to give Lamott her meager savings.She can't even disguise her opportunist ways in her writing.This book is actually pretty bleak, to me.Just because Lamott ... Read More
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