“Writing Down the Bones”

Freeing the Writer Within — Natalie Goldberg (Book Review)

This is hands down one of my all time FAVORITE books on the craft of writing.

With every page Natalie makes you feel excited to be a writer.

She makes you feel magical.

Just the act of picking up a pen and creating something new — that has never been brought out into the world before — is a glorious act of LOVE, according to her.

I felt so enlivened and rejuvenated during and after reading this book.

To be a writer at all seems to be a noble act of Godly proportion.

Natalie believes writing is a spiritual practice and a healing one.

I agree.

When I first read this book I couldn’t stop smiling for hours afterward. I wrote non stop for days and days just to honor this author.

She seemed to put her heart, sweat and blood into convincing us what a gift it is to be honored with the ability to write.

She combines humor, spirituality and a sheer delightful looooove of writing more than almost any other book I’ve read.

If you want a shot in the arm get this book.

If you want to get your fingers moving and your brain exploding with ideas and fun — — and your face grinning ear to ear get this book.

After reading this book I think you will feel powerful, alive and joyful to be a writer.

Isn’t that what a book about writing is supposed to do for you?

NATALIE GOLDBERG recently co-edited a collection of talks by revered zen teacher Katherine Thanas, The Truth of This Life (Shambhala, 2018). In her latest memoir Let the Whole Thundering World Come Home(Shambhala, 2018), she shares her experience with cancer grounded in her practice of zen and writing. Her other books include The Great Spring: Writing, Zen, and This Zigzag Life (Shambhala, 2016), the novel Banana Rose (Bantam, 1995), and the beloved Long Quiet Highway: Waking Up in America, a memoir about her zen teacher Katagiri Roshi.

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