Condition
GOOD: The book's spine, covers, and pages are in very good condition, showing only slight signs of use and wear; however, the pages are beginning to tan with age.
Product Details
From the back cover: "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.'"
BRIEF CONTENTS
PART 1: Writing - Getting Started, Short Assignments, S----y First Drafts, Perfectionism, School Lunches, Polaroids, Character, Plot, Dialogue, Set Design, False Starts, Plot Treatment, How Do You Know When You're Done?
PART 2: The Writing Frame of Mind - Looking Around, The Moral Point of View, Broccoli, Radio Station KFKD, Jealousy
PART 3: Help Along the Way - Index Cards, Calling Around, Writing Groups, Someone to Read Your Drafts, Letters, Writer's Block
PART 4: Publication—and Other Reasons to Write - Writing a Present, Finding Your Voice, Giving, Publication
PART 5: The Last Class
