Dear Aaron Sorkin, This excerpt comes to me from Lisa Firke via her website, Hit Those Keys. It comes to her from Anne Lamott in her writer's guide, Bird by Bird.
It doesn't need any commentary from me.
"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....he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and unopened books on birds, immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead. ...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.”
—Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
Best, Laura
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Anne Lamott is the best, isn't she?