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Writing down the bones freeing the writer within

For more than thirty 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 -...

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Main Author: Goldberg, Natalie (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: Boulder, Colorado : Shambala, 2016.
Edition: 30th anniversary edition.
Subjects:
Authorship.
Table of Contents:
  • Beginner's mind, pen and paper
  • First thoughts
  • Writing as a practice
  • Composting
  • Artistic stability
  • A list of topics for writing practice
  • Fighting tofu
  • Trouble with the editor
  • Elkton, Minnesota: whatever's in front of you
  • Tap the water table
  • We are not the poem
  • Man eats car
  • Writing is not a McDonald's hamburger
  • Obsessions
  • Original detail
  • The power of detail
  • Baking a cake
  • Living twice
  • Writers have good figures
  • Listening
  • Don't marry the fly
  • Don't use writing to get love
  • What are your deep dreams?
  • Syntax
  • Nervously sipping wine
  • Don't tell, but show
  • Be specific
  • Big concentration
  • The ordinaryand extraordinary
  • Talk is the exercise ground
  • Writing is a communal act
  • One plus one equals a Mercedes-Benz
  • Be an animal
  • Make statements and answer questions
  • The action of a sentence
  • Writing in restaurants
  • The writing studio
  • A big topic: eroticism
  • A tourist in your own town
  • Write anyplace
  • Go further
  • Engendering compassion
  • Doubt is torture
  • A little sweet
  • A new moment
  • Why do I write?
  • Every Monday
  • More about Mondays
  • Spontaneous writing booths
  • A sensation of space
  • A large field to wander in
  • The goody two-shoes nature
  • No hindrances
  • A meal you love
  • Use loneliness
  • Blue lipstick and a cigarette hanging out of your mouth
  • Going home
  • A story circle
  • Writing marthons
  • Claim your writing
  • Trust yourself
  • The Samurai
  • Rereading and rewriting
  • I don't want to die.

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