The Writer Files: Writing, Productivity, Creativity, and Neuroscience How Bestselling Author Natalie Goldberg Writes
Bestselling author and teacher, Natalie Goldberg, spoke to me about igniting a revolution with Writing Down the Bones, meeting creative block in a cemetery, and her latest, WRITING ON EMPTY: A Guide to Finding Your Voice.
Natalie Goldberg is a poet, teacher, author, painter, and 24-year student of Zen Buddhism who teaches writing workshops based on the methods presented in her popular bestseller Writing Down the Bones. The book has sold over a million copies and has been translated into 14 languages.
Her latest is Writing on Empty: A Guide to Finding Your Voice, where the author “... shares her inspiring personal journey out of a devastating period of writer’s block and back into a life of growth, creativity, and healing.”
Described as a guide to “… discovering how to write through the emptiness in order to fill up the world with compassion, healing, and renewed liveliness.” Publishers Weekly praised it as "... a refreshingly honest look at the struggles of the creative mind."
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In this file Natalie Goldberg and I discussed:
How her Zen practice informs her work
Her early life as a poet
When New York publishers made fun of her, at their peril
Why she hates the diagnosis “writer’s block”
Finding catharsis in writing a personal history
And a lot more!
Show Notes:
Writing on Empty: A Guide to Finding Your Voice by Natalie Goldberg (Amazon)
Natalie Goldberg Amazon Author Page
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