Natalie Goldberg’s Rules for First-Draft Writing: “Give the paper the colorful coleslaw of your consciousness.”

Excerpt From Chapter 2 “First Thoughts” in Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within by Natalie Goldberg 1. Keep your hand moving. (Don’t pause to reread what you have just written. That’s stalling and trying to get control of what you’re saying.) 2. Don’t cross out. (That is editing as you write. Even if […]