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Summary: What I think
Review: Natalie Goldberg's Wild Minds: Living the Writers Life is full of useful information along with ideas of how to guide yourself to the point of disciplined writing. She, in her short 62 chapters, explains how a writer lives and ideas to remember while writing. One useful point of information was to always set yourself in that place or what about a place similar to what you are sitting in at the current moment. By doing this you will add more emotion and description and your readers will take more notice in the details to feel as if they are there also.
She includes, at the end of almost every chapter, a try this section. In the try this sections, she offers skill building, if you chose to follow them. Some will take only 5 minutes, some up to two hours to complete if you are dedicated. These are a bit helpful; however, most of them seem to try to overcome writer's block.
Although this book contains many to live by rules of writing, it is more biographical if anything. You learn about her life than you do skills of how to be a good writer. If you are already a writer or thinking of becoming one, this book is an excellent choice. She offers morale and encouragement throughout her stories with her own hardships and realizations. However, if you are looking for a book to help teach you how to be a good writer, then you should look elsewhere.
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Summary: Natalie captures writings simplicity and strength.
Review: Natalie shows how writing can be so simple yet powerful. She shows writing not as a long strenuos task but as simple everyday thing: excerise for the mind and soul.
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Summary: This is my favorite
Review: of Natalie's writing books. I think it is especially good for those who edit themselves as they write. Natalie gives you permission to write badly. You can always clean it up later. She encourages us to let loose and and get it down on the page. And if you're blocked, she offers lots of "try this" exercises.
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Summary: Excellent Book!
Review: Of the many writing books I have, this is my favorite, and this is the one that I lend out the most, usually I receive a new copy in return! Natalie doesn't lecture, instead she encourages us to write, even if it's terrible. Don't stop the hand! Edit it later.
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Summary: A FAMILIAR VOICE
Review: PICKED THIS BOOK RANDOMLY WHEN I SPOTTED THE TITLE. HER COMPASSIONATE AND HONEST TONE CHEERED ME ON IN MY QUEST FOR A LIFE OF TRUTH THROUGH DELVING DEEPLY WITHIN. SHE LED ME TO THIC NHAT HAN AND BEYOND. I SEND HER ENOCURAGEMENT ON THE PATH OF LOVINGKINDNESS.
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Summary: A life-changer
Review: Several times, people have come to me to critique their writing or give advice, and I've given them this book to read. The effect on their work is remarkable. Total transformation. I recommend this book to anyone who writes -- or wants to write -- for a living. You will read it again and again whenever you need inspiration.
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Summary: It's lucrative to write about writing.
Review: That's the only explanation I can come up with for this book. Goldberg has made a good living off of "Writing Down The Bones," and now goes to the well again to offer advice to aspiring writers. Save yourself some time and read Lamott's "Bird by Bird," a much better book on the process of writing that is filled with humor and insight.
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Summary: It's lucrative to write about writing.
Review: That's the only explanation I can come up with for this book. Goldberg has made a good living off of "Writing Down The Bones," and now goes to the well again to offer advice to aspiring writers. Save yourself some time and read Lamott's "Bird by Bird," a much better book on the process of writing that is filled with humor and insight.
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Summary: Writer's Block Begone!
Review: The best kinds of books are ones that you put on a certain part your desk and know that, eventually, you'll be reading it again. Natalie Goldberg's _Wild Mind_ (as well as her _Writing Down the Bones_) is the type of book that is going to follow you through your life because they help writers with a terrible disease... writer's block.No matter what stage of writer's block you're in... Initial denial... mediocre frustration... or serious hair pulling... Goldberg has a variety of simply exercises which can not only "unstuck" you, but also help develop the writing muscle so that you don't end up always thinking, "Well, I get to my writing real soon now". For non-writers, a Goldberg read is likely to churn up creative energy. Simply reading a few chapters will open the creativity door wide open and who knows what is going to come out.
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Summary: Good, but ....
Review: The first part of this book was really marvelous, then she started on "True Confessions." If I had known I wouldn't have bought this book. Sex life and preferences should be kept personal and not published, at least not in a book about writing advice. It was totally out of context and had no value at all! I would have given even less stars, but the beginning really is good.
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