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Title: Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within (Shambhala Pocket Classics)
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| Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within (Shambhala Pocket Classics) by Shambhala Wow, writing doesn't have to be painful heinous experience to avoid at any/all costs? |
| I'm a freelance creative and sometimes (ok, often) need to be reminded why I write. And that I actually love it way, way more than I hate it. Natalie Goldberg's teeny pocket book is perfect motivation for any writer of any genre including the personal journal. This is a written from a personal, vulnerable place as we get a clear sense of her personal struggles/triumphs. Best of all, every chapter has a strong tug to action with suggested topics to get the brain moving and a little infusion of euphoria that sends me right to my journal or computer. Because of its size I leave it out where I can always see it. I take it with me every time I travel. If you love to/want to/have to write, Natalie Goldberg's book will keep your brain from freezing or frying. Any time I want to get my creative flow, I grasp for my well-worn copy to be reminded that wherever I am in my writing, that's exactly where I belong. I feel inspired. I feel excited. This is a big deal, because I have nearly every book there is on the subject. Writing Down the Bones is the only one of those books that never goes back on the shelf. Ever. |
| Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within (Shambhala Pocket Classics) by Shambhala What would I do without this book? |
| This book has been so much help to me, especialy when I get writer's block. A friend recommended this book to me years ago. Unfortunately, I did not buy it until recently. I also write poetry and this book has been very useful to me not only for writing in general, but also for writing poetry. |
| Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within (Shambhala Pocket Classics) by Shambhala Good things come in small packages... |
| This is the first pocket book I ever had that truly fits into a pocket! Physically it is delightfully diminutive. Reading it has been delightfully inspiring. I started writing after about two and a half chapters, and I haven't stopped writing since. (I even started drawing again after a 25 year hiatus). Natalie has totally conquered novice and veteran writer's block. With an informal combination of attitude, method, tips, personal anecdotes and an overall deft touch, the reader quickly comes to understand how to write. Everything about this book is authentic. I love it. |
| Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within (Shambhala Pocket Classics) by Shambhala A classic! |
| This is the book that help me write consistently. The short exercises are not intimidating, and will help you capture your unique voice. |
| Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within (Shambhala Pocket Classics) by Shambhala Goldberg's Book is indeed liberating. |
Writing Down The Bones is now nearly 20 years old, and I recently secured a used copy and read it in one night. It is an intriguing book about writing, as it focuses not on the "how-to's" of story structure and plotting, but rather on the nuts and bolts of getting words down on paper. The author emphasizes that a writer must write; they must feel the urge to put pen (preferably one that allows fast, smooth writing--it is to that degree of detail that the author describes the art) to blank paper. Filling whole school notepaper books, dozens of them, with unedited prose, is the goal. Like a musician, the writer that dedicates the time to logging thoughts, feelings and stories on paper will one day play Carnegie Hall.
Writing Down The Bones has opened my mind from the claustrophobic view of penning a fabulous book that will challenge English Lit students in colleges nationwide--a stratospheric formula for self-editing and self-doubt, certainly--to simple free-form writing. Even if not a story, just get it on paper, warts and all. Forget grammar. Forget word choice. Like a breeze through drying laundry on the line in the summer, just let it flow. Writing Down The Bones permits a budding scribe to purge rather than labor. A bulimic outpouring of alphabet soup, it is emphasized, can one day be honed to the Great American Novel. Or, as Stephen King once said when asked how to judge a talented writer, "A talented writer is one that sells a story to someone who'll pay for it with a check, and the check doesn't bounce, and the money is used to pay the light bill. That's a talented writer."
And that form of talent comes more easily when the fear of failure is stripped away like old varnish on your grandma's chest of drawers. There is a gorgeous piece underneath.
Let it flow.
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| Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within (Shambhala Pocket Classics) by Shambhala Product Description |
| For more than twenty years Natalie Goldberg has been challenging and cheering on writers with her books and workshops. In her groundbreaking first book, she brings together Zen meditation and writing in a new way. Writing practice, as she calls it, is no different from other forms of Zen practice—"it is backed by two thousand years of studying the mind." This edition includes a new preface and an interview with the author. |
| Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within (Shambhala Pocket Classics) by Shambhala Amazon.com |
| Wherein we discover that many of the "rules" for good writing and good sex are the same: Keep your hand moving, lose control, and don't think. Goldberg brings a touch of both Zen and well... *eroticism* to her writing practice, the latter in exercises and anecdotes designed to ease you into your body, your whole spirit, while you create, the former in being where you are, working with what you have, and writing from the moment. |
| Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within (Shambhala Pocket Classics) by Shambhala Amazon.com Audiobook Review |
| Natalie Goldberg's love of writing stems from her desire to connect with herself. In this audio version of her bestselling Writing Down the Bones, this is a potentially self-absorbed wish, especially considering that the author reads from her own work and interjects morsels of wisdom gleaned from a long writing career, which includes books on writing (Wild Mind, Long Quiet Highway), creativity (The Well of Creativity), and art (Living Color). However, Goldberg's relaxed narration and Everywoman sensibility help her avoid this danger. The classroom-like reading gives listeners a growing acquaintance with Goldberg and a friendly assurance of her methods as she quips: "you can hear my New York Jewish voice nagging you." The recording also includes an interview with Goldberg, focusing on her use of Zen meditation in writing and offering additional insight into her own rule-free writing habits. (Running time: 9 hours, 6 cassettes) --Bryony Angell |
