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  <title><![CDATA[Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within (Shambhala Pocket Classics)]]></title>
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  <default_description>Wherein we discover that many of the &quot;rules&quot; for good writing and good sex are the same: Keep your hand moving, lose control, and don't think.  Goldberg brings a touch of both Zen and well... *eroticism* to her writing practice, the latter in exercises and anecdotes designed to ease you into your body, your whole spirit, while you create, the former in being where you are, working with what you have, and writing from the moment.  </default_description>
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      <name><![CDATA[Natalie Goldberg]]></name>
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  <read_at>Fri Nov 14 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Reading Writing Down The Bones by Natalie Goldberg and Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott struck me as reading two very similar books from two distinct voices. Writing Down The Bones is a personal reflection on the craft and what works for Goldberg and might work for you. It's easy to digest, coming in sho...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37447090">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Dec 17 06:22:41 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Dec 17 06:22:51 -0800 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I heard about this book a lot while doing Nanowrimo last year, and thought I'd read it. It's a little amusing, written in 1984, so pre-computer really. And some of her advice was pretty repetitive, but I did get some glimmers out of there.<br/>&quot;We walk through so many myths of each other and ou...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10550165">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Thu May 01 14:20:50 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu May 01 14:26:22 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a great starting-point aspiring-writer's book, terrific for getting the creative juices flowing. I have used Natalie Goldberg's techniques both as a writer and as a writing teacher. But eventually, if you want to write Things That Other People Want to Read and not just Things That Are Fun to...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21415271">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Young or beginning writers who don't mind hearing a spiritual dimension added to writing]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[Professor Robert Bensen]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Tue Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2002</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Jul 25 04:40:38 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Jul 25 04:47:35 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've owned this book for six years.  My copy is the pocket-size version.  Its cover is wrapped in packing tape to slow the dog-earing.<br/><br/>The first time I read this book in college, and many times since, I carried it everywhere with me, reading it before classes, and over lunch in the dining...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28243107">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="13651166">
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I put it under inspirational, since it does have a lot of that, but this is also the best writing book I have read. I got it on the recommendation of a colleague of mine when I was still teaching high school English. It has inspired me to be a better writer myself. And it is just a good book to read...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13651166">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Anyone who wants to improve their writing skills, or understanding of the writing process]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[Dr. Michael Angelotti]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Sun Aug 26 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Aug 30 18:52:49 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Sep 14 14:34:19 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book changed my life as a writer, a teacher of writing, and as an individual!<br/><br/>I use this book currently in my high school Creative Writing I class.  I read chapters to the students; we talk about what they might mean, and how the advice given could change their writing.  I wasn't sur...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31621321">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="2817223">
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Anyone who wants to write!]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Wed May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2002</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Jul 07 20:37:16 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Jul 07 20:42:48 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is what got me writing.  Absolutely stunning in its simplicity, but also much more deep than one would think upon first glance. Natalie Goldberg is a brilliant teacher who compares writing to many other crafts that necessitate discipline and daily practice, including meditation, friendship...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2817223">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="3197205">
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  <read_at>Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Tue Jul 17 21:00:46 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is great!  Everything about it is great!  I especially like that it's four inches high and can fit in your back pocket.  Unlike other writing books I've read (incl. &quot;Bird by Bird&quot; by Anne Lamott) it never gets redundant or dull.  You can pick it up and read any section at any tim...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3197205">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="44863139">
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    <body><![CDATA[Great book of non-dork writing prompts.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1997</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was recommended this book by the children's author Judith Bernie Strommen. I met Judith at a picnic table in Clearwater, MN, when I was about 11, and we kept in touch via letters for years. Of all the things she deserves thanks for, I would put name-checking this book as the most important. <br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59014473">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <recommended_by><![CDATA[Creative Writing: University of Derby]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book constitutes a collection of over sixty short essays. I say essays, really, for want of a better term - Each looks at a different aspect of a writers life, specifically the authors, and allows the reader (always assumed to be a writer too) to draw their own insights from them.<br/>When I bo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56456998">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="54694763">
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  <read_at>Sat May 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat May 02 09:35:43 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat May 09 07:28:51 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[A sincere commitment to writing as a vocation - that message comes out clearly in this book which harks back to the hippie era. It's a pity that Goldberg is more a poet than a novelist as I was looking for some tips in the latter genre. Yet I uncovered a few gems that are still fresh:<br/>1) Obsess...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54694763">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed Oct 28 16:05:07 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'd heard a lot of good things about this book, but hadn't gotten around to reading it until now. NaNoWriMo is next month so, wanting to prepare, I figured that now would be the opportune time to read it. <br/><br/>The book is a series of really short chapters or essays on different aspects of wri...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75084348">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 07 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[ฉันไม่รู้ว่าจะบอกว่านาตาลีเป็นนักเขียนหรือไม่ เพราะสิ่งที่ฉันพบคือ การเรียนรู้ชีวิตและตัวตนภายในจากกา...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41158756">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Would I consider this a bible to every budding author, or even a book of how-to for writing in general? Definitely not.<br/><br/>Would I consider it a very enjoyable and heartening book to read, whether you're a writer or not, that almost anyone can relate to? Definitely yes.<br/><br/>Natalie Go...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38734539">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Fri Nov 28 09:58:27 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Writing down the Bones: A helpful manual to discover the writer hidden in every one of us.<br/><br/>Natalie Goldberg will embark the audience into a journey where at the end of it the writer hidden within them will awake.<br/><br/>Her knowledge in “Zen Techniques” and her life experiences he...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38807936">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Every writing advice book can take the reader only so far. At some point they have to put down the book and get the work. I find most such books to contain different versions of the same thoughts on how to plant your butt in the chair, how to quiet the world and focus on the work, how to edit enough...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67644053">more...</a>]]></body>
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