Tag Archives: Natalie Goldberg
Art, craft, and the elusive self
I knew Dave Owen in another life—my Hoosier period—and since then he’s become an admired landscape painter in southern Indiana. In his thoughtful new blog post “With the Artist Added,” at David Owen Art Notes, Dave reflects on the nature … Continue reading
Filed under aesthetics, discovery, emotion, freewriting, NOTED, technique, working method
Review: ‘Old Friend from Far Away’
Old Friend from Far Away: The Practice of Writing Memoir by Natalie Goldberg. Free Press. 309 pages Books on writing fall into two broad categories: how-to and inspirational. Natalie Goldberg’s Writing Down the Bones is solidly in the latter tradition, … Continue reading
Filed under discovery, freewriting, memoir, REVIEW, spirituality, teaching, working method
On memoir vs. monkey mind
“Know that writing is born from the ache of contraries, polarities in search of peace, of unity. But not the unity of making mush. You want to live in the country. Your husband is an urban boy. You compromise and … Continue reading
Filed under evolutionary psychology, existentialism, memoir, NOTED, working method
The sentimentality tightrope
from Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within by Natalie Goldberg: “A responsibility of literature is to make people awake, present, alive. If the writer wanders, then the reader, too, will wander. The fly on the table might be … Continue reading
Filed under creative nonfiction, NOTED, sentimentality, spirituality, technique, theme
