5 Intriguing Tips for More Creativity

Natalie Goldberg's Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within is now out in an expanded edition with a new preface and afterword by the author. Extremely popular for decades, the book contains relatively short chapters written in a conversational style that can't help but be liberating to the inhibited writer.

Happily, her chapter titles are seductive enough to be tips on their own, so consider these:

1. Don't marry the fly. Goldberg explains that sometimes we get carried away by a...