I just received my copy of Natalie Goldberg’s Writing Down the Bones and it is a lovely little book. There is nothing better than a new book that looks elegant and is full of possibilities.
This book is all about writing. I had never heard of Goldberg until this semester but so far, from the few snippets of hers that I have read, I really love what she has to say about writing. I hope to learn much from this book. I only read the preface and already I am inspired. Perhaps I will blog my way through the book.
She says…
“Meditation and writing practice are coincident. The more we understand the human mind, our basic writing tool, the better, more secure we can be in our writing.”
“Once you connect with your mind, you are who you are and you’re free.”
From Jack Kerouac’s essentials for prose:
Accept loss forever
Be submissive to everything, open, listening
No fear, no shame in the dignity of your experience, language, knowledge
Be in love with your life
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Now those are some words I can live with. That is what I have been trying (not always succeeding) to do with my blog. I will try harder.
“Now please go. Write your asses off.” ~ Natalie Goldberg
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