<p>Natalie Goldberg's word-of-mouth hit has sold well over half a million copies. Goldberg, who has conducted writing workshops for both beginners and professionals all over the United States, sees writing as a practice that helps us comprehend the value of our lives. With insight, humor, and practicality, she inspires writers and would-be writers alike to take the leap into writing creatively and well.</p>

Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

Natalie Goldberg

Literature & Fiction

Shambhala Publications

<p>Presenting the writer's craft as a means of discovering the value of our lives, Goldberg inspires writers and would-be writers to take the leap into truly creative writing through suggestions, encouragement, solid advice, and more.</p>

Writing Down The Bones

Self-Help

Creativity

Shambhala Lion Editions

What does it take to have a long writing life? Drawing on her years of writing, teaching, and practicing Zen, Natalie Goldberg shares the experiences that have opened her to new ways of being alive - experiences that point the way forward in our lives and our writing. The "great spring" of this book title refers to the great rush of energy that arrives when you think no life will ever come again - the early yellow flowering forsythia, for example. It also refers to enlightenment: obstructions shatter, pain cracks open, previously resisted truth releases, an acceptance of transiency flows through. Natalie Goldberg shares the moments that have sprung from her own life of writing, teaching, and Zen practice - moments of searching, wandering, zigzagging, losing, and leaping where she has found herself and her voice. In this audio, we watch as Natalie "makes positive effort for the good" - one of the guiding rules of her writing life - and we see that if we can stay attentive in our lives, even in the middle of the ruins, "we can hear the sound of a songbird in a Paris chestnut tree". Whether we know if the song comes from inside us or out doesn't matter. 13 of the 22 essays in the book have been previously published (often in a different form). Those publications include Yoga Journal, Shambhala Sun, Five Points, and Creative Nonfiction.

Great Spring, The

Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio

Freeing the Writer Within By Natalie Goldberg The best-selling author of Writing Down the Bones and Wild Mind offers a Zen approach to help the writer in getting the essential words from mind to paper. Recorded at workshop. 1 tape - 90 minutes

Freeing the Writer Within

Writer's AudioShop

Writing the Landscape of Your Mind

Politics & Social Sciences

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