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Natalie Goldberg
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Natalie Goldberg
About this listen
With nearly one million copies of the book Writing Down the Bones in print, Natalie Goldberg has helped change the way writing is practiced in homes, schools, and workshops across America.
Here is a new collector's edition of this modern classic as you have never heard it before, read by Natalie Goldberg herself and then infused with her most personal reflections about this "magic manual" for all writers. Try these ingenious, Zen-based exercises to expand your writing skills - or just for fun.
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Writing Creative Nonfiction
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- Narrated by: Tilar J J. Mazzeo
- Length: 12 hrs and 16 mins
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Bringing together the imaginative strategies of fiction storytelling and new ways of narrating true, real-life events, creative nonfiction is the fastest-growing part of the creative writing world. It's a cutting-edge genre that's reshaping how we write (and read) everything from biographies and memoirs to blogs and public speaking scripts to personal essays and magazine articles.
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Not what I expected but useful
- By Nancy on 04-14-14
By: Tilar J J. Mazzeo, and others
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Thunder and Lightning
- Cracking Open the Writer's Craft
- By: Natalie Goldberg
- Narrated by: Natalie Goldberg
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
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The challenge we face as writers, Natalie Goldberg says, begins with the process of turning inward and then trying to communicate what we find. From the secret of letting characters and stories "write themselves" to finding mentor sources and responding to criticism to writing's one essential ingredient, which is the mind - here are all-new Zen-based lessons and reflections, refined and proven at Natalie's acclaimed national writers' workshops.
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Inspiring
- By StoryDtechtive on 02-11-17
By: Natalie Goldberg
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On Writing
- A Memoir of the Craft
- By: Stephen King
- Narrated by: Stephen King, Joe Hill, Owen King
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
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“Long live the King” hailed Entertainment Weekly upon publication of Stephen King’s On Writing. Part memoir, part master class by one of the bestselling authors of all time, this superb volume is a revealing and practical view of the writer’s craft, comprising the basic tools of the trade every writer must have. King’s advice is grounded in his vivid memories from childhood through his emergence as a writer, from his struggling early career to his widely reported, near-fatal accident in 1999—and how the inextricable link between writing and living spurred his recovery.
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Who needs a print edition when King reads King?
- By Cather on 11-18-05
By: Stephen King
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Freeing the Writer Within
- By: Natalie Goldberg
- Length: 1 hr and 27 mins
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The best-selling author of Writing Down the Bones and Wild Mind offers a Zen approach to creative writing to help you find your own voice. Goldberg offers techniques for getting to the essential speech of your mind, bypassing the internal editor, and developing the confidence to trust the writer within. This workshop is about writing - it is also about helping you penetrate your life and become sane. Goldberg is a poet, fiction and nonfiction writer, and a teacher.
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I hope the book is better
- By Evelyn on 12-21-05
By: Natalie Goldberg
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On Writing and Worldbuilding - Volume I
- By: Timothy Hickson
- Narrated by: Larissa Thompson, Merphy Napier
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
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Writing advice tends to be full of "rules" and "tips" which are either too broad to be helpful or outright wrong. In On Writing and Worldbuilding, we will discuss specific and applicable ideas to consider, from effective methods of delivering exposition and foreshadowing, to how communication, commerce, and control play into the fall of an empire.
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all hail mishka
- By M. M. on 03-25-21
By: Timothy Hickson
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The Great Failure
- A Bartender, a Monk, and My Unlikely Path to Truth
- By: Natalie Goldberg
- Narrated by: Natalie Goldberg
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
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"The Great Failure is a boundless embrace, leaving nothing out. I wanted to learn the truth, to become whole. If I could touch the dark nature in someone else, I could know it in myself." So begins Natalie Goldberg in this candid exploration of her life. Here, Goldberg makes sense of primary relationships between father and daughter, teacher and student, and exemplifies the accomplishment available when creating daily writing practices.
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If you have been let down by anyone. Listen
- By Mia on 04-19-18
By: Natalie Goldberg
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The Elements of Style (Recorded Books Edition)
- By: William Strunk Jr., E. B. White
- Narrated by: Frank McCourt
- Length: 4 hrs
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The Elements of Style has long been a valued and beloved resource for all writers. Hailed for its directness and clever insight, this unorthodox textbook was born from a professor's love for the written word and perfected years later by one of his students: famed author E. B. White. Ever since its first publication in 1959, writers have turned to this book for its wise and accessible advice.
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Required Reading
- By T. C. Pile on 12-07-08
By: William Strunk Jr., and others
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The Writing Life
- By: Annie Dillard
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 2 hrs and 37 mins
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With color, irony, and sensitivity, Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Dillard illuminates the dedication, absurdity, and daring that is the writer’s life. As it probes and exposes, examines and analyzes, The Writing Life offers deeper insight into one of the most mysterious of professions.
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How Odd--How Poorly Written?!?
- By Gillian on 02-27-15
By: Annie Dillard
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- bodoni
- 04-24-11
What’s wrong with her voice?
I love her voice. I’m a big fan of authors reading their own work, in general — it adds a lot for me. Remember that Goldberg has successfully taught writing for decades and has formed countless writers; this is the voice that she teaches in. It’s her voice. It’s her. It’s a no-nonsense, warm, down-to-earth New York voice. It’s a voice that contains sensible reminders for us all.
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- R. Hart
- 08-02-22
INSPIRATIONAL
Natalie Goldberg's invaluable guidance on writing offers such a wonderfully unique combination of both practical and creative advice. She is smart, funny, wise and simply brilliant at teaching writing.
Although there are, at times, some spiritual/philosophical issues she delves into that may not resonate with everyone, this audiobook at its core, is truly a celebration of the passion and joy of writing. It has inspired me to view writing in a different way and with more of an open mind. And an open mind is a beautiful thing!
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- CMG
- 05-01-18
Inspiring & great voice
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
I would recommend to fellow writers as it encourages people to listen to their inner voice and write.
Which character – as performed by Natalie Goldberg – was your favorite?
Natalie
What’s an idea from the book that you will remember?
Just write even if garbage
Any additional comments?
This is an inspiring book if you want to write. The focus isn't on the actual "how to write a sentence" type of material, but more on how to fit writing into your life and how to come up with ideas and a process to keep writing. Natalie Goldberg was the narrator and I loved listening to her voice.
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- Anonymous User
- 10-02-19
excellent
most memorable moment,"noodle your way thru ,if your not a bulldog at writing .love it.I'm a noodle writer how blessed it is for me to be originally a noodle writer and it's ok.
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- ger
- 10-22-21
Thank you Nathalie, Zen in writing
in my way, I know zen buddhism, and I know writing, and I had somehow never quite connected the two together. And when I chose to listen to this book, I didn't even know that it was about connecting the two together. I have now connected the two together, and am very grateful of this..So I say: Thank you Nathalie.
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- Anonymous User
- 08-20-19
Frogs are not just Frogs
Listening to Natalie’s Writing Down the Bones, inspired me to write my love story and relive what all my senses experienced.
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- R. Russeth
- 01-12-23
Good Grief…This is Good
This is about as wonderful as it gets when it comes to writing advice. Shes not teaching you how to write a blockbuster, shes reaching you how to write honestly and fearlessly in your own voice. Learn how to do that she is saying and then you can go write whatever your heart desires. Beautifully read with a genuine warmth.
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- Krissy D.
- 07-09-10
The Substance
I almost passed on this gem after reading all the negative reviews here, so it feels like a duty to add the positive. Natalie Goldberg is not an actress who portrays an author in order to appease audiences; she is the actual author. This book provides genuine coaching from an actual writing coach. It is less about appearances and more about substance. She reads the chapters that she wrote two and a half decades ago, then elaborates afterward as an older and wiser writer. The writing is informative, language is lovely, and perspective is helpful for anyone who LOVES to write. She sounds like an older Jewish lady from New York. So what? She is.
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- Robert
- 07-17-19
Lots of great advice
Really enjoyed this. Hearing what she thought about what she wrote years earlier gave it more resonance and made it more real. I really like the idea of writing sprints. She talks a lot about writing practice and I remember reading Kristine Kathrin Rusch saying that all writing is practice. Each story and book is practice. I'm also reminded of Day Bradbury saying write a.short story a week. You can't write 52 stories and all of them be bad. At least a few will be good. It mAkes sense that you write and you grow as a writer. You practice and you get better. Listen to this and get inspired. Listen and then write.
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- Molly
- 03-16-19
Tip: author’s voice more enjoyable on 1.25 or 1.5 speed
Don’t miss out on this fabulous book because you aren’t crazy about the author’s voice. Some books go too fast when the narrator’s voice is sped up, but not this one. This book is chock full of helpful lessons.
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