The True Secret of Writing Connecting Life with Language

by Goldberg, Natalie

• ISBN13: 9781451641240
• ISBN10: 1451641249
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2013-03-19
• Publisher: Atria Books

Summary

The beloved teacher and author of the million-and-a-half copy bestseller Writing Down the Bonesreveals new breakthrough writing guidance as she recounts profound lessons she has learned from a lifetime of teaching and practice. Sit. Walk. Write. These are the barest bones of Natalie Goldberg's revolutionary writing and life practice, which she details in The True Secret of Writing, her first book on the silent intensives she has taught for over a decade in small groups in Taos, New Mexico. This is a whole new slant on writing since her perennial bestseller, Writing Down the Bonesand it's now available to everyone. With luminous reflections on the rich life of the mind and heart that writing awakens, Goldberg guides readers through their own personal or group retreat, illuminating the steps of sitting in silent open mind, walking anchored to the earth, and writing without criticism. Just as Goldberg cuts through her students' resistance with her no-nonsense instructions"Shut up and write" The True Secret of Writingcuts to the core of self-understanding and connecting with the world. The capstone to four decades of teaching, The True Secret of Writingis Goldberg's Zen boot camp, her legacy teaching. Its stories of her own students' breakthroughs and insights give moving testament to how brilliantly her unique, tough-love method works.