Writing Down the Bones
by Natalie Goldberg, Nathalie Goldberg · first published 1986
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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."
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You should read Natalie Goldberg's Writing Down the Bones. She describes exercises to help get over these feelings, and gives you permission to suck. Or rather, convinces you to give yourself that permission.
on “Do you have a blog? And if so, why?” ↗Other great writing books: - Writing Down the Bones - Bird by Bird - On Writing Well (nonfiction writing only) - The War of Art I generally have tried to follow the feedback of writing consistently, even if you don't feel like it. Stephen King mentions…
on “Advice for Aspiring Writers” ↗…read this great book about that first category of journaling, although IMO a fast pen and paper gives the right balance of stream of consciousness and output speeds https://nataliegoldberg.com/books/writing-down-the-bones/
on “Two Categories of Journaling” ↗Natalie Goldberg, in Writing Down the Bones, described how for a while, whenever she sat down to write she would just have this immense feeling of inner peace flow through her, as if she were close to enlightenment, and she thought "Well, I will…
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