Writing Down the Bones Freeing the Writer Within

Name: Writing Down the Bones Freeing the Writer Within
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ISBN: 9781590302613

ISBN-10: 1590302613

ISBN-13: 9781590302613

Edition: 2nd 2005

Authors: Natalie Goldberg

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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." This new edition, which marks almost twenty years since the original book's publication, includes a new preface in which Goldberg expresses her trademark enthusiasm for writing practice, as well as a depth of appreciation for the process that has come with time and experience. Also included is an interview with the author in which she…

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List price: $14.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Shambhala Publications, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/6/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.594



Preface


Introduction


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 Ordinary and 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 Your Mouth


Going Home


A Story Circle


Writing Marathons


Claim Your Writing


Trust Yourself


The Samurai


Rereading and Rewriting


I Don't Want to Die


Epilogue