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Summary: A "Must Have" Book for Writers!
Review: Like Ueland's "If You Want to Write," Goldberg's "Writing Down the Bones" is a perpetual favorite with new and experienced writers alike. Writing in witty and conversational tones, Goldberg offers tips, techniques, and exercises on letting yourself become one with the page and letting your thoughts, words, and stories flow. Less rules are better, according to Goldberg, and she takes you on a journey into yourself where you tap into your inner voice and wisdom to tell the truth as you see it. Goldberg's let-go-and-do-it attitude will motivate you each and every time you pick up this book.
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Summary: The best "get up off your butt and write" books ever!
Review: Writing Down The Bones is an essential book, not just for writers, but for any living, breathing person on the planet! Through simple and concise writing exercises Goldberg guides us to places within ourselves where our own unique creative voice flows freely. Writing Down The Bones is required reading
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Summary: Excellent guide for creative writers
Review: I highly recommend the book for writers both young and old.
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Summary: An inspirational book for all writers.
Review: This book helps both experienced and potential writers with topic ideas and suggestions. Goldberg's clear writing style is a fantastic model. Some topic ideas she suggests are to write about a time you were really happy, a place you really love, a time you were really down, the most extraordinary story you know, a story you love to tell, or a magic moment that you remember from last week. She inspires writers to let their creative juices flow with the following suggestions: keep your hand moving; don't cross out; don't worry about spelling, punctuation, grammar; lose control; don't think; don't get logical; go for the jugular. She makes it seem easy to write.
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Summary: Fabulous
Review: Reading this book, I found different techniques to help my own students learn how to tap into themselves as sources for their writing. This book is an invaluable resource
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Summary: A must for writers of every kind
Review: A deceivingly concise and revealing book. With simple advice
and exercises. If you want to devote your life to writing or
just want to give it a try this is the perfect road map.
Give this book, and yourself, a chance.
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Summary: Great for motivating a beginning writer!
Review: I am so thankful to the person who recommended "Writing Down the Bones" to me. It is my writing bible
Rating:
Summary: A "Must Have" Book for Writers!
Review: Like Ueland's "If You Want to Write," Goldberg's "Writing Down the Bones" is a perpetual favorite with new and experienced writers alike. Writing in witty and conversational tones, Goldberg offers tips, techniques, and exercises on letting yourself become one with the page and letting your thoughts, words, and stories flow. Less rules are better, according to Goldberg, and she takes you on a journey into yourself where you tap into your inner voice and wisdom to tell the truth as you see it. Goldberg's let-go-and-do-it attitude will motivate you each and every time you pick up this book.
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Summary: Writing Down The Bones
Review: This book is a helpful book on writing. It is not a great book,
but the author helps the reader deal with some of the important
things in ones existence that may help or hurt one's attempt to
write. Having read it a couple of times makes me wonder why
we have to read about writing before we write. I wonder if we would-be writers are looking
for that magic stimulous(a book like this) that will propel us into writing a great book? This book didn't help me.
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Summary: Invigorating boost for creative writing
Review: This was one of the required textbooks for my first high school English class. Only one chapter of it was required reading, but when I opened it, I saw writing with a freedom and honesty my 14-year-old self had never experienced before, and went on to read the entire book. Since then, I've re-read it many times, going through several copies, since I always seem to be giving mine away to friends that are writers.
Other reviewers have said this book only applies to poetry; I feel it applies to any piece of writing that you want to be naked and honest, fully yourself. It's perfect for poetry and short essays, yes. I've also found it fantastic for self-reflections, journal entries of sorts; the journal entries I've written after reading Natalie's book have always been powerfully cathartic, and self-discoveries in their own right. Try writing an essay on the topic "I Am" right after reading her chapter on identity. You'll be surprised.
Finally, for those struggling with writer's block on a more formal piece of writing where you can't really write nakedly (such as newspaper articles or engineering papers, which I run across more than creative writing, being a student journalist and engineering student), read this book anyway. It will jolt you out and start you writing boldly, and once you have that writing momentum, it's easier to harness into whatever style you need to be in.
If you are a fearless writer or genuinely want to become one, get this book.
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