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Title: Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within by Natalie Goldberg, Judith Guest ISBN: 0877733759 Publisher: Shambhala Publications Pub. Date: October, 1986 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4.31

Rating: 5
Summary: Writing Down the Bones
Comment: Just finished reading the book and I have begun to write as of yesterday in this purple notebook with a kitty on the front. You just couldn't write anything bad in a purple kitty notebook! Ms. Goldberg's work was encouraging and enlightening, a very personal mini course in writing.

This is a book you will want to share with your friends so buy them a copy for a birthday present, as you won't want to be without yours! Filled with information and ideas on how to approach writing it will help you deal with the various phobias as they arise along your writing path. She challenges you to make time in your life to write, to think and to become one with the written word in a Zen fashion. It is the most helpful book I have read on the subject of writing. Thank you Natalie, you are an inspiration, I hope someday to be able to go to a workshop that you teach!

Rating: 5
Summary: Into the Void and Out With Ideas
Comment: Follow the advice that Ms Goldberg gives and let yourself become one with the page. There is no paper, no hand, no pen, no block. There is the void, the silence, and the act of creation and when you stop, there is your novel, complete and perfect before you on the page. Well, alright, perhaps not perfect but this marriage of Zen and common sense, beautifully written and blazingly clear, is a wonderful manual for any writer.Indeed for anyone that takes a moment to look at the world around them, anyone who does more than simply move unthinkingly through their life like a robot, this book is a rare delight. Once read thoroughly, it can be used randomly as an antidote to writer's block. Open almost any page and begin reading to feel the log jam in your cortex start to shift and jostle. Your fingers flex, your eye sparkles. The words tumble over themselves as ideas outpace your hand and your writing becomes a hellish scrawl. Buy a computer and take a speed typing course. My thanks to Ms Goldberg for a truly inspirational book.

Rating: 5
Summary: a guide to releasing your soul
Comment: I bought this book on recommendations from other writers and journal keepers, but I was openly apprehensive that it would be just another "you can do it" or worse another pontification on the divine art of writing. I couldn't have been more wrong!

Of all the how-to writing books I have read, all the while looking for that one filled with honest, practical advice to help shake loose my creativity free from the confines of English class rules and order, this is the best one out there. Natalie starts out telling you that it isn't an ordered process that fuels creativity. She lets you know up front that all those rules and "regulations" that you learned in every English class you ever took don't apply in real creativity.

She takes you step by step, holding your hand thruout, thru a creative storm complete with exercises designed to frighten and enlighten. In the end you realize that you are, indeed, a creative person when not confined to the traditional definitions of creativity and art.

I felt I could do anything, write anything, and create anything when I was done with this book. I read it straight thru in an afternoon and then went back over the period of a week and did the exercises. I still go back, months later, re-working the exercises, reading favourite chapters, and reminding myself of the wonderful wellspring of creativity in all of us.

I highly recommend this book to anyone frustrated with the traditional "this is how to be creative" books that so many of us have trudged thru in desperate hopes of finding a single grain of enlightenment. Natalie gives it to you in page after page of insight, comfort, and freedom. You won't be disappointed - unless, of course, you really do like all those ridiculous rules and regulations.

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