I think I’m going to start doing these book notes pages slightly differently (for some books). I will be writing separate entries as I go along and link them here to provide a more in depth look at the books I read. So this page can act as a quick citation point.
What This Book Inspired:
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What Do You Imagine Your Writer Subconscious to Be?
Anne Lamott describes how a friend describes the subconscious: It’s a beautiful metaphor, but when I think of my subconscious I imagine something different. My Subconscious is The Star-Weaver in Her Observatory She lives in a high stone tower surrounded by night. Constellations scatter across her worktable. Ideas shimmer in the air like dust from…
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Book Notes: Bird by Bird – Part 1 – Short Assignments
In the introduction to Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott reflects on growing up in a literary household shaped by her writer father, whose disciplined daily practice and devotion to language quietly modeled both the beauty and burden of the writing life. She traces her own path from an anxious, awkward child who found refuge in…
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Book Notes: Bird by Bird — Part 2 — Trust the Mess
On Writing Messy On Characters On Plotting On Dialogue On Settings On Revisions & Finishing Posts in Series:
Green Where You Water It 
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