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In her first writing guide since the masterly WRITING DOWN THE BONES, Natalie Goldberg emphasizes the importance of using deep memory to expand the depth of remembered events with details. She introduces and promotes practices that enable writers to delve into their unconscious and retrieve remnants of memory that are not merely relevant, but essential to forging a connective bond with the reader. After absorbing Goldberg's wise lessons and practical advice, anyone should be able to write powerful, poignant passages about their lives. Led by James Frey and Augusten Burroughs, a new generation of memoir writers is striving to placidly assert their level of dysfunction. These authors tend to present episodes of the most excessive abuse and absurd behavior with a wry, detached humor that stinks of wit and attempts to render such extremes as ordinary and acceptable. Luckily, Natalie Goldberg is determined to prevent these self-indulgent scribblers from permanently corrupting the craft of memoir writing. In her first writing guide since the masterful WRITING DOWN THE BONES, Goldberg emphasizes the importance of using deep memory to expand the depth of remembered events with details. She introduces and promotes practices that enable writers to delve into their unconscious and retrieve remnants of memory that are not merely relevant, but essential to forging a connective bond with the reader. After absorbing Goldberg's wise lessons and practical advice, anyone can write powerful, poignant passages about themselves, even if they were never addicted to oven cleaner or molested by the family pet.
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From the beginning exercises to the finishing details, the author of Writing Down the Bones offers a complete program on memoir writing, teaching the essential techniques for sharing the story of our lives--who we are, where we went, what we saw, and how we felt.
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Twenty years ago Natalie Goldberg's classic, Writing Down the Bones, broke new ground in its approach to writing as a practice. Now, Old Friend from Far Away -- her first book since Writing Down the Bones to focus solely on writing -- reaffirms Goldberg's status as a foremost teacher of writing, and completely transforms the practice of writing memoir.
To write memoir, we must first know how to remember. Through timed, associative, and meditative exercises, Old Friend from Far Away guides you to the attentive state of thought in which you discover and open forgotten doors of memory. At once a beautifully written celebration of the memoir form, an innovative course full of practical teachings, and a deeply affecting meditation on consciousness, love, life, and death, Old Friend welcomes aspiring writers of all levels and encourages them to find their unique voice to tell their stories.
Goldberg's enormously popular workshops have given countless students the ability to heed the call to write. Old Friend from Far Away recreates her trademark workshop style with its terse, demanding writing "sprints" that train the hand and mind to quicken their pace and give up conscious control. These exercises divert the eye from the obvious and redirect it to the tactile details we miss, the embarrassments we pass over, and the complications we overlook in the blur of everyday living. Goldberg writes, "No one says it, but writing induces the state of love." Old Friend from Far Away guides us into that state of love, where heightened attention and a rhythm of focus allow the patterns and details of the past to emerge on the page.
Millions of Americans want to write about their lives. With Old Friend as the road map for getting started and following through, writers and readers will gain a deeper understanding of their own minds, learn to connect with their senses in order to find the detail and truth that give their written words power and authenticity, and unfold the natural structure of the stories they carry within. An absolute joy to read, it is a profound affirmation of the capacity of the written word to remember the past, free us from it, and forever transform the way we think about ourselves and our lives. Like Writing Down the Bones, it will become an old friend to which readers return again and again.
Biography
Natalie Goldberg is a poet, teacher, and the author of eleven books, including her classic, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within--which has sold more than a million and a half copies and has been translated into fourteen languages--Wild Mind, Long Quiet Highway, Living Color, and The Great Failure. She has taught seminars for thirty years to people from around the world, and lives in northern New Mexico.
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