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Freeing the Writer Within

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An edition of Writing Down the Bones (1986)

Writing Down the Bones

Freeing the Writer Within

1st ed.
  • 3.8 (4 ratings) ·
  • 58 Want to read
  • 7 Currently reading
  • 5 Have read

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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Table of Contents

Foreword
Page xi
Acknowledgments
Page xv
Introduction
Page 1
Beginner's Mind, Pen and Paper
Page 5
First Thoughts
Page 8
Writing as a Practice
Page 11
Composting
Page 14
Artistic StabiHty
Page 16
A List of Topics for Writing Practice
Page 19
Fighting Tofu
Page 23
Trouble with the Editor
Page 26
Elkton, Minnesota: Whatever's in Front of You
Page 27
Tap the Water Table
Page 30
We Are Not the Poem
Page 32
Man Eats Car
Page 34
Writing Is Not a McDonald's Hamburger
Page 36
Obsessions
Page 38
Original Detail
Page 41
The Power of Detail
Page 43
Baking a Cake
Page 45
Living Twice
Page 48
Writers Have Cood Figures
Page 50
Listening
Page 52
Don't Marry the Fly
Page 55
Don't Use Writing to Get Love
Page 57
What Are Your Deep Dreams?
Page 59
Syntax
Page 61
Nervously Sipping Wine
Page 66
Don't Tell, but Show
Page 68
Be Specific
Page 70
Big Concentration
Page 72
The Ordinary and Extraordinary
Page 74
Talk Is the Exercise Ground
Page 77
Writing Is a Communal Act
Page 79
One Plus One Equals a Mercedes-Benz
Page 82
Be an Animal
Page 83
Make Statements and Answer Questions
Page 85
The Action of a Sentence
Page 87
Writing in Restaurants
Page 90
The Writing Studio
Page 95
A Big Topic: Eroticism
Page 97
A Tourist in Your Own Town
Page 99
Write Anyplace
Page 101
Go Further
Page 103
Engendering Compassion
Page 105
Doubt Is Torture
Page 108
A Little Sweet
Page 110
A New Moment
Page 111
Why Do I Write?
Page 113
Every Monday
Page 117
More About Mondays
Page 119
Spontaneous Writing Booths
Page 121
A Sensation of Space
Page 124
A Large Field to Wander In
Page 127
The Goody-Two-Shoes Nature
Page 131
No Hindrances
Page 135
A Meal You Love
Page 138
Use Loneliness
Page 140
Blue Lipstick and a Cigarette Hanging Out Your Mouth
Page 142
Going Home
Page 143
A Story Circle
Page 147
Writing Marathons
Page 150
Claim Your Writing
Page 154
Trust Yourself
Page 157
The Samurai
Page 159
Rereading and Rewriting
Page 162
I Don't Want to Die
Page 167
Epilogue
Page 169
Notes
Page 171

Edition Notes

Bibliography: p. 171.

Published in
Boston, [New York]

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
808/.02
Library of Congress
PN145 .G64 1986, PN145.G64 1986

The Physical Object

Pagination
xv, 171 p. ;
Number of pages
171

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL2718577M
Internet Archive
writingdownbones00goldrich
ISBN 10
0877733759
LCCN
86011840
OCLC/WorldCat
13642801
Library Thing
6968
Goodreads
578518

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