Bird by Bird

I believe that this chapter, "Letters," is very relevant to what we are doing with our papers right now, because we are focusing on audience. Lamott does this as a cure to writer's block, by suggesting that you write a letter to someone you know. For example, she writes a letter to her son about his childhood. Not only does this help cure writer's block, but it also helps you work on writing to a specific audience, and an audience who knows you very well. This helps with our geanealogies, because many of them focus on very personal stories, and it may help if we write them as if they were directed towards people who know us well.