- Paperback: 238 pages
- Publisher: Bantam USA (31 Oct 1990)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0553347756
- ISBN-13: 978-0553347753
- Product Dimensions: 13.2 x 1.4 x 20.9 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 219,522 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Natalie Goldberg's classic book on the techniques, skills and art of creative writing
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Natalie Goldberg, author of the bestselling Writing Down The Bones, teaches a method of writing that can take you beyond craft to the true source of creative power: The mind that is "raw, full of energy, alive and hungry."
Here is compassionate, practical, and often humorous advice about how to find time to write, how to discover your personal style, how to make sentences come alive, and how to overcome procrastination and writer's block -- including more than thirty provocative "Try this" exercises to get your pen moving.
And here also is a larger vision of the writer's task: balancing daily responsibilities with a commitment to writing; knowing when to take risks as a writer and a human being; coming to terms with success and failure and loss; and learning self-acceptance -- both in life and art.
Wild Mind will change your way of writing. It may also change your life.
Here is compassionate, practical, and often humorous advice about how to find time to write, how to discover your personal style, how to make sentences come alive, and how to overcome procrastination and writer's block -- including more than thirty provocative "Try this" exercises to get your pen moving.
And here also is a larger vision of the writer's task: balancing daily responsibilities with a commitment to writing; knowing when to take risks as a writer and a human being; coming to terms with success and failure and loss; and learning self-acceptance -- both in life and art.
Wild Mind will change your way of writing. It may also change your life.
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57 of 58 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Natalie brings a unique perspective to the art of writing. If you can get onto her wavelength - and the way she writes makes this spectacularly easy - then this book will open up all sorts of hidden doors and pathways in you that you never even knew existed.
The chapters are very short and snappy - rarely more than 2-3 pages - and each one gives you something to try out, to play with. She mixes personal anecdotes with Zen teachings and a wealth of experience to make your neurons leap and your synapses crackle. A few weeks into regular 'writing practice' I heard a song lyric which reminded me of something I'd heard in the past few days. I puzzled for some time over who on Earth might have said that to me before realising it was one of the characters in a short story I was working on! I've NEVER before had the experience of mixing my own fiction with real life! Could be psychosis, but I prefer to think of it as a deepening of the creative process ;-)
If you're even semi-serious about turning out some great stuff, and breaking out of your fixed patterns of thought and action, go get Wild Mind....and enjoy the ride!
44 of 45 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Goldberg's excercises will introduce a beginner to structured writing practice, and stimulate the jaded or professional writer out of any blocks they may have. Each chapter gives an insight into the writer's problems, routines, habits, and is ended with a practical excercise designed to challenge our imaginations and abilities. Goldberg's practice of Zen Budhism is woven through her text, and used to illustrate ways we can tame our distracted 'monkey minds' and get down to the daily practice that is necessary to produce work of any standard. A must for all writers - anywhere.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Having already read "Writing down the bones" by the same author, which I often return to for ideas for writing and life, I found this second book on the same subject more personal and revealing about the author, but full of the same short, pithy and very usable tips. This time there is much more about not just the mechanics of writing and the thought processes that go into it, but what it has been like for this particular writer, the sacrifices she has made, conversations she had with writer friends and others who followed other diciplines, and the spectacular power which writing and being honest about ourselves can unleash in other areas of our lives. Not only did this book renew my interest in truly creative writing ( as my notebooks were becoming more and more like straight factual journals), it also got me wanting to take up running again after a long interlude, to see if the confidence that came from writing could help me there! I suspect I will be giving this book as a present in the near future, there is something in it for anyone with an interest in any art or discipline.
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Good for beginners and if you need motivation
Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer within is the only writing book I own that makes me want to pick up a pen on reading it. Read more
Published 7 months ago by A. Halfacre
What do you really want to write?
This is one of the rare books on writing that focuses on the creative process in preference to the editing process. Read more
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I was right ten years ago
I picked up this book after an almost ten year layoff from creative writing. It had been reccomended to me then, when I had read it and found myself recalling Johnny Rotten's... Read more
Published on 7 Nov 2007 by Rob Hymer
It gets you writing
I love this book and have recommended it to many people. It is an extremely interesting read and the "Try This" exercises really invite you into the writing process.
Published on 31 Mar 1999
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