How to Improve Your Legal Writing “Bird by Bird”
I’m not a fiction writer. For about a decade, I was, and in some ways, I still aspire to be. But for now I write on topics related to my industry and sometimes histories. I write what I believe to be truth. But in many ways, so does the fiction writer. And that is the intersection at which Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird applies to me and to you. Bird by Bird isn’t a book for lawyers or about lawyers, or as far as I can tell, even contemplates lawyers. But I’ll be darned if there aren’t some writing truths...