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ASIN: 0877733759
ID #106053
Product Type: Book
Reviewer: PeaceLove Author Icon
Review Rated: E
Amazon's Price: $ 9.65
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Summary of this Book...
Writing! Sixty or so short chapters on ways to inspire you to write using Natalie Goldberg's ancedotes and writing prompts. She shows you how to get to the core of your writing by listening to your spirit and using it to help guide your work. Goldberg offers many suggestions and useful tips to start writing as well as to continue with it, the main point being to write every day about anything.
I especially liked...
The casual tone and the advice that we incorporate our writing into our life's routine as well as using our life to write about. "It is also about using writing as your practice, as a way to help you penetrate your life and become sane."
When I finished reading this Book I wanted to...
Buy lots of notebooks and fill them up.


Write down the little things that I experience during my day. Write about anything and everything, every day.
This Book made me feel...
Encouraged, inspired and a need to be creative.
The author of this Book...
"Natalie Goldberg is a writer, poet and teacher." She is also a painter and has displayed her works in Taos, New Mexico. Over the years she has taught many writing workshops in the U.S. She also appeared in an Oprah Winfrey segement in 2000 about spirituality and writing.
I recommend this Book because...
The ideas are fresh and original, even though the book was published in 1986. The casual and sometimes funny narration makes it an easy read. The suggestions are useful and inspiring.


I don't recommend this Book because...
The only thing I can complain about is that I wish it were longer. However, this author has written more books on the subject of writing that I intend to check out.
Further Comments...
I just saw this book on the shelf at the Indigo Bookstore as well as a small pocket-sized version.




For more information about this author and her other works, visit https://http//www.NatalieGoldberg.com


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NOTE: I just purchased these, both by Goldberg:




Thunder and Lightening:Cracking Open the Writer's Craft


ISBN 0553374966




Wild Minds:Living the Writer's Life


ISBN 0553347756





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