The summer has flown by. I’ve been working on my book, tentatively titled The Corporate Blogging Book. BTW, that title is so stupidly obvious we’re thinking it just might work. Waddya think? Click here to vote on proposed titles for my book about corporate blogging. I want your thumbs up or down and your suggestions for a sub-title.
Which brings me to… the most helpful book I’ve read this summer (re-read, actually, on the advice of Penguin Portfolio publisher Adrian Zackheim): Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott (Random House, 1994)
It’s a book about writing: how to get started, how to write well, getting published. It’s hilarious. Lamott is endearingly self-deprecating. She says out loud what many of us prefer not to admit… demons abound when you sit down to write. As she puts it:
“Then your mental illnesses arrive at your desk like your sickest, most secretive relatives. And they pull up chairs in a semicircle around the computer, and they try to be quiet but you know they are there with their weird coppery breath, leering at you behind your back.”
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