Excremental Summary of Anne LaMott’s Bird by Bird excerpt

Anne LaMott personifies a writer’s strife by depicting a world of insecurity and self-defeat, ensuring her reader loses any potentially misconstrued and innocently ignorant fantasy about a writer’s artful flow. This is how she sets the tone to that of a rough draft only to lead into a winding road of decide to write, write, look for inspiration, write some more, slip a piece of yourself into your work, write some more, then refine your work. This is the writing process. And before ink is dry, Anne allows the Polaroid to show its true colors in the arena of awe inspiring glory as the final literary piece crosses the finish line.

Anne uses a creative thinking approach to explaining the writing process. So creative, in fact, she uses the evolving mood of her piece to demonstrate the refinement process. After reminiscing High School English, I recall the drab textbooks of grammar and my lack of eagerness towards the studied literature. I also remember writing the rough drafts, rewriting and rewriting once again, achieving the final draft to be stowed behind the crisp clear plastic. Anne LaMott has presented a new flavor in the writing process, perhaps a more enticing perspective with a carrot of inspiration dangling off the corner.