Cynthia Harrison
Novelist
Tag: natalie goldberg
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On the (research) road
When is it time to stop researching and to start writing again? For me, it’s a question I try to be mindful of while madly clicking away and taking notes and cutting and pasting and making lists. The point came for me today when I realized I was way too deep into Jack Kerouac for…
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Connect to the Power
Natalie Goldberg wrote poetry for ten years and could not get it published anywhere. She tried and tried and finally had enough. She tried something new. She didn’t give up writing, just stopped writing poetry to focus on a book called Writing Down the Bones. She had no idea as she wrote that it would capitulate her…
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Clearing Things Up
It took me a day or two, but I finally figured out that what Natalie Goldberg meant by “you can’t write about writing” referred only to the context of the particular exercise she was explaining. I have been meaning to clear that up. Another thing I want to clarify is that I still plan to open some kind…
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Memoir
Am reading Natalie Goldberg’s new book, Old Friend From Far Away. It’s about how to write memoir. There are tons of exercises, which I have not been doing. But I’ve been enjoying the book anyway and right in the middle of it I realized I’m writing a lot of memoir these days. I was trying…