Welcome to our book study of Anne Lamott’s classic, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life.

Tonight, we focused on pages 3-26, and used this question to guide our discussion:

The first three chapters of Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird zero in on her most important teachings—how to get started, narrowing your focus to a one-inch frame, and permitting yourself to write “shitty first drafts.”

What will you take from Lamott’s instructions and apply to your own writing practice? Point to passages that give you this guidance.