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Title: Thunder and Lightning : Cracking Open the Writer's Craft by NATALIE GOLDBERG ISBN: 0-553-37496-6 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 30 October, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.46 (26 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Read Carefully to Glean the Gems
Comment: While this book is essentially a memoir of Natalie's life as a writer, there are tangible, useful clues plus decent and practical advice about how to move your writing to a higher level. True fans should appreciate this book as it represents a deep meditation of a honest and hardworking writer's mind.
Like her earlier books on writing, this one again delivers in a series of essays, divided into three distinct sections. Considering the wide territory she attempts to cover, the chapters end up forming a more cohesive story than before.
Believe it or not, Natalie is on to something here. To find the roadmap that is the promise of this book, you have to read carefully and not skim the pages looking for them. I recommend highlighting or bookmarking these passages so you can go back to them. Just "Like Writing Down the Bones" and "Wild Mind," the ultimate lesson here is to take her advice and carve your own path.
What I liked best about "Thunder & Lightning" is how Natalie walks us through her journey as a writer. Like me, she started with no idea on how to write and made many attempts that lead nowhere. Although she occasionally covers old territory, there's a terrific and inspiring lesson here about what it takes to be a writer.
Natalie also reveals her internal dialogue in dealing with her editors and bravely shows us the editorial revisions to original sentences from her various manuscripts. This should give anyone struggling with the writing process some measure of hope and consolation.
I was a bit stymied when she advises *two* full years of regular writing practice to break through instead of the year she suggests in her second book. I wished she had explained why she's upped the ante.
Rating: 1
Summary: Bleh.
Comment: A babbling stream of zen consciousness nonsense. This book may be interesting to those who like new age poetry but if you're primarily looking to improve your writing craft - seek elsewhere. There are a few nuggets of helpful wisdom here, but they are buried by reams of meandering memoir.
Rating: 1
Summary: Birkenstock wearers only please!
Comment: The only thing missing from this waste of time is a cup of herbal tea.
Ooh, look at the pretty rainbow!
Pass the incense please.
Uugh!
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Title: Wild Mind : Living the Writer's Life by Natalie Goldberg ISBN: 0553347756 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 October, 1990 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg ISBN: 0877733759 Publisher: Shambhala Pub. Date: 12 October, 1986 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: Long Quiet Highway : Waking Up in America by Natalie Goldberg ISBN: 0553373153 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 February, 1994 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Living Color: A Writer Paints Her World by Natalie Goldberg ISBN: 0553354892 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 02 September, 1997 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Top of My Lungs: Poems and Paintings: And the Essay "How Poetry Saved My Life by Natalie Goldberg ISBN: 158567298X Publisher: Overlook Press Pub. Date: 10 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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