All through reading this, I kept wondering how it was I hadn't read it before. Or perhaps it's just as well, because this is about the perfect time in my life for me to read this book. Lamott is refreshingly realistic about publication and about the true day-to-day slogging involved in writing. I've always had trouble maintaining a writing schedule because I figured I was doing it wrong because a) it mostly felt like having very complex dental work done (or doing it on myself), and b) I've not published since college (and that was in our school literary magazine, so I've always been fairly certain it doesn't count). Lamott's book has given me the freedom to hate the process and forget about publication so that I can open myself up to the joy and love that is also buried in the hours of toil. 
 Now to figure out a writing schedule that works while being a homeschooling mom to two young children. I have a feeling it will involve keeping a sleep schedule usually only observed by people responsible for milking cows.