<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">The title comes from her brother’s childhood story. Write bird by bird.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Big projects feel scary, but small steps make them doable.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Focus on writing one small piece at a time.</li></ul>

1. Start Small — “Bird by Bird”

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">Focus on small, real details from your life or imagination.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Good writing isn’t about sounding fancy. It’s about honesty.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">And if you ever feel stuck for ideas, I’ve created <a href="https://anupchouhan.gumroad.com/l/50Game-ChangingChatGPTPromptsforWriters">50 powerful ChatGPT prompts</a> to help you spark those first words and keep the ideas flowing.</li></ul>

5. Write What You See

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">Trying to be perfect will stop you before you start.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Let go of needing to get it right.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Imperfect writing is how you reach great writing.</li></ul>

7. Tackle Perfectionism

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">Fame or money shouldn’t be the goal.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Writing itself is what brings meaning and growth.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">If you’re writing, you’re already winning.</li></ul>

10. Success Is the Writing, Not Fame

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">Your first draft doesn’t need to be good. It just needs to exist.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Don’t aim for perfection right away.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Messy writing is how you find the good parts later.</li></ul>

2. First Drafts Are Supposed to Be Messy

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">Don’t copy other writers. Your voice matters.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Writing how you speak makes your work stronger.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">The more you write, the more your voice develops.</li></ul>

6. Find Your Own Voice

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">Everyone has an inner critic that says, This is bad.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Don’t listen. Write anyway.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">You can always fix it later, but you can’t fix what doesn’t exist.</li></ul>

4. Quiet the Negative Voices

You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">Writing is like exercise. The more you do it, the better you get.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Even if you don’t feel like it, show up.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Consistency is the real secret to finishing anything.</li></ul>

3. Show Up Every Day

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<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">Don’t worry about what others will think.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Write what you need to write.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">You can shape it for readers later, but start with your heart.</li></ul>

8. Write for Yourself First

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">You don’t have to know exactly where you’re going.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">The story or idea will reveal itself as you write.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Take it one sentence at a time.</li></ul>

9. Trust the Process

Break free from writer’s block and start writing today

‘Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report on birds written that he’d had three months to write. It was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books on birds, immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead. Then my father sat down beside him, put his arm around my brother’s shoulder, and said, “Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.”’ Here, for the first time, is a local edition of the bible of writing guides — a wry, honest, down-to-earth book that has never stopped selling since it was first published in the United States in the 1990s. In Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott, a bestelling novelist and memoirist, distils what she’s learned over years of trial and error. Beautifully written, wise, and immensely helpful, this is the book for serious writers and writers-to-be.

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