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Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
“Where do you come from, who are you, what makes you?”
Natalie Goldberg • Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
There comes a time to shape and direct the force we have learned. I asked them, “What are your deep dreams? Write for five minutes.” Many of us don’t know, don’t recognize, avoid our deep dreams. When we write for five, ten minutes we are forced to put down wishes that float around in our mind and that we might not pay attention to. It is an opport
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Don’t listen to doubt. It leads no place but to pain and negativity.
Natalie Goldberg • Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
Some part of us can walk through the cloud of humming mosquitoes and touch a very clear place inside us.
Natalie Goldberg • Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
“I am the frost on the window, the cry of a young wolf, the thin blade of grass.” Forget yourself. Disappear into everything you look at—a street, a glass of water, a cornfield. Everything you feel, become totally that feeling, burn all of yourself with it.
Natalie Goldberg • Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
by that mechanism in us that tries to be in control,
Natalie Goldberg • Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
Art is the act of nonaggression. We have to live this art in our daily lives.
Natalie Goldberg • Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
Our stories are important. Try calling a story circle with some friends. All you need is a candle.
Natalie Goldberg • Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
The world isn’t always black and white. A person may not be sure if she can go some place, but it is important, especially for a beginning writer, to make clear, assertive statements.