THE TRUE SECRET OF WRITING

In her first book on writing as a practice since her classic bestseller, Writing Down the Bones, beloved writing teacher Natalie Goldberg will expand on her teachings like never before.
Featuring personal stories and stories of Natalie's students, their breakthroughs and plateaus, The True Secret of Writing will examine how these intensive writing methods work. The True Secret of Writing will be the capstone to her incredible four decades of teaching writing.

Here is how to practice writing practice; how it promotes an understanding of the mind, the individual life, and of meaning, as well as an understanding of how we create. More narrative driven than her previous book, Old Friend from Far Away, with longer explanations and chapters, The True Secret of Writing will also explore the importance to the creative process of sitting, walking, and standing in silent meditation and contemplation as they get to the heart of an idea or an image, with lessons that will help people open to their natural writing abilities and individual expressiveness, increase self-understanding, and help them make connections outside themselves and in the world.

Natalie Goldberg is the author of Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within (1986), which broke open the world of creativity and started a revolution in the way people practice writing. The book has sold well over a million and a half copies and been translated into fourteen languages. Natalie has written eight other books, including fiction and a memoir, and our own book on writing memoir, Old Friend from Far Away. She has been teaching seminars on writing as a practice for the last thirty years. People from around the world attend her life-changing workshops. The Oprah Winfrey Show sent a film crew to spend the day with Natalie for a segment on spirituality that covered her writing, teaching, painting, and walking meditation. Natalie lives in Northern New Mexico.