(copied from “Assignments,” above. Am reposting it here.)

April 8: Here is your next reading, in pdf format. Please extract three quotes from it that you find most inspiring. Type and print them yourself on paper. Paste the paper near you desk/workspace/where you will see them all the time. Show me a photo of where you posted the paper.

These two chapters are excerpted from a larger book on what it’s really like to be a fiction writer. Hope you enjoy — even though you are not writing fiction, you are writing fact!:

http://engl210-picetti.wikispaces.umb.edu/file/view/Lamott_Bird+by+Bird.pdf