Writing down the bones: freeing the writer within/

Main Author: Goldberg, Natalie
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston ; London: Shambhala, c1986
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Table of Contents:
  • Writing is not a McDonald's hamburger
  • Obsessions
  • Original detail
  • Power of detail
  • Baking a cake
  • Living twice
  • Writers have good figures
  • Listening
  • Don't marry the fly
  • Don't use writing to get love
  • What are your deep dreams?
  • Syntax
  • Nervously sipping wine
  • Don't tell, but show
  • Be specific
  • Big concentration
  • Ordinary and extraordinary - Talk is the exercise ground
  • Writing is a communal act
  • One plus one equals a Mercedes-Benz
  • Be an animal
  • Make statements and answer questions
  • Action of a sentence
  • Writing in restaurants
  • Writing studio
  • Big topic: eroticism
  • Tourist in your own town
  • Write anyplace
  • Go further
  • Engendering compassion
  • Doubt is torture
  • Little sweet
  • New moment
  • Why do I write?
  • Every Monday
  • More about Mondays
  • Spontaneous writing booths
  • Sensation of space
  • Large field to wander in - Goody-two-shoes nature
  • No hindrances
  • Meal you love
  • Use loneliness
  • Blue lipstick and a cigarette hanging out your mouth
  • Going home
  • Story circle
  • Writing marathons
  • Claim your writing
  • Trust yourself
  • Samurai
  • Rereading and rewriting
  • I don't want to die.