My Vibe book review: Goldberg's Writing Down the Bones
Someone recommended I read Writing Down the Bones , by Natalie Goldberg, many years ago, and I carried the cute little mini-trim-size edition around with me for quite a while. I don't remember coming away from that first possession with any particular jewels of insight or knowledge that resonated, but my general sense of the book over the intervening years is one of having been pleased and inspired by it. So when I saw that the newest edition of the book was available from Shambhala Publications through NetGalley, I didn't hesitate to download it to my Kindle to review. I wanted to revisit the text that had pleased me (and to recall why). Goldberg's tone and approach are accessible, and the writing tips she shares are fine_certainly valid and usable, especially for young/beginning writers. She places writing in the hands of novices through comparisons with everyday (at least for some of us) activiti...