Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
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With insight, humor, and practicality, Natalie Goldberg inspires writers and would-be writers to take the leap into writing skillfully and creatively. She offers suggestions, encouragement, and levelheaded advice on many aspects of the writer’s craft: on writing from “first thoughts” (keep your hand moving, don’t cross out, just get it on paper), on listening (writing is ninety percent listening; the deeper you listen, the better you write), on using verbs (verbs provide the energy of the sentence), on overcoming doubts (doubt is torture; don’t listen to it)—even on choosing a restaurant in which to write. Goldberg sees writing as a practice that helps writers comprehend the value of their lives. The advice in her book, provided in fleeting, simple-to-read chapters with titles that reflect the leader’s witty approach (“Writing Is Not a McDonald’s Hamburger,” “Man Eats Car,” “Be an Animal”), will inspire anyone who writes—or who longs to.Amazon.com Review
Wherein we learn that many of the “rules” for excellent writing and excellent sex are the same: Keep your hand moving, lose control, and don’t reflect. 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 make, the ex- in being where you are, effective with what you have, and writing from the moment.
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Dear Friends,
My Dog Lily taught
me how to write,
and here’s how:
1)Pretend to throw,
and then:
Throw her,Lily, a
juicy steak.
2)Watch her
Jump up and Down
in Anticipation,
then catch the
large thing in her
mouth and paws-
like she has
won the Kentucky Derby
and the Powerball Lottery-
and a night with
Mel Gibson,for example. Whatever….
Watch her attack this
piece of beef like it
is her last meal.
She will ruin, consume,
like and ruin this
ex- cow, until
this cow
is naught but bone.
Then, the bone is cracked
open by her mighty jaw,
and the marrow is
new flesh to be exploited,
ruined, loved and
denuded.
She will worry this bone
until it is a sorry
relict of a cow:
Broken and nearly
indistinguishable
from any additional broken object-
nearly.
This,This,This I judge
is the Right Meaning of
“Writing Down The Bones”:
Ruin Life[metaphorically
language] like a dog does
to a Bone, until you
have understood Life.
Then, write about this
Life.
In additional words,
Be an enzyme, a biological
catalyst, so to speak.
Writing is about
Analyzing
down to the bones,
and then
re-making “Life”
in your own
imagination.
danny.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
offers having no effect advise (get a quick pen?) simplistic and useless. go to the movies rather than waste time on this having no effect book.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I ordered this book for a weekend-long writing class. It was ordered more than 3 weeks in advance of the class and the class has come & gone. I marvel how the book was? Still waiting…
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
The Beat Generation
is so Over.
Zen Buddhism is
a huge, huge, huge
confidence game.
Natalie Goldberg,
a very nice person,
and Zen Veteran,
from Looooooong
Guyland, got
sucked into
the Naropa Institute/
Allan Ginsberg
spiritual/poetic
writing ghetto
and never escaped.
On the additional hand,
she absolutely
fosters and encourages
any and all writers
to go the last mile
to become a writer-
which is a fantastic and
excellent, admirable
feat.
Her Voice, Her Persona
are Irresistable:
Charming, Loveable,
Kittenish.
Her cloddish references
to her Zen teacher
Katagiri-roshi,
become annoying.
The sub-text of
this cassette:
Zen-Lesbian-Vegetarian-
JournalWriting-Ageing
Hippie=GOOD,
All others=BAD,
handicaps this
cassette.
I listened to 9 hours
of this cassette, plus
3 hours of the cassette
THUNDER AND LIGHTNING,
before stuffing
the cassettes back in the
box.
I cannot deny my like
for Natalie,the person, as she appears on this tape.
She is so charming!
I cannot deny my irritation
with her presentation,
which so quickly
wears thin.
A Huge conflict.
But, I judge she could
write a dozen
fantastic novels:
She has the Heart, Mind,
Guts, Sensitivity and
Insuperable Diligence
to make excellent fiction
far into the future.
Am I, then, a
mean man?
P.S.: I reflect… Excellent Writing can be establish in
the Final movie-speech of “Galaxy Quest”,for example,which
sings like a taut violin string.
The Shooting speech of “Galaxy Quest”
[at scifiscripts.com],but
is lumpy and flaccid.
Much can be learned I judge
from comparing the two
danny
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
This is a book as best friend for any writer who is just getting ongoing, who is stuck or who wants to get back to their writing roots. Natalie Goldberg ROCKS!
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5