Don’t Spoil Your Headline: ten Faults Writers Make
In Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott instructs the aspiring writer in the practice of chunking. These include: ‘thinks’, ‘knows’, ‘understands’, ‘realizes’, ‘believes’, ‘wants’, ‘remembers’, ‘imagines’, ‘desires’, and a hundred others you love to use.’ It’s like having a mental countdown clock; as you reach each interim milestone you know progress is being made. How do…