Wild Mind
A Field Guide to the Human Psyche

Most writers refer to Writing Down the Bones as a good book to read, but I'd have to say that I enjoyed the sequel better. Wild Mind promotes what Goldberg calls Writing Practice, which is when you free-write until the nonsense turns into sense. It's a collection of essays that touch on life and art......more

I hate writing and I hate to read much. So when I had to read a book about writing I was not excited at all. When I got the copy of Wild Mind: Living the Writer's Life and started to read it, I caught myself wanting to read more and trying all the "Try This" that I could. Natalie Goldberg approach t......more

Many short chapters, each only 2 or 3 or 4 pages long, maybe with an exercise at the end: Try this. The result is a bit scattershot but also profound. Depends on one's mood, the advice one is craving, how much the impulse —to write, to keep busy, to distract, to self-sabotage— is in full bloom. There......more

Natalie Goldberg has definitely been a writing guru and true inspiration for me over the years. This book, along with her other book, Writing Down the Bones, sit on my desk as books I can open I be reminded why I write and how to get into the meat of how to write. "You have to let writing eat your l......more

the best book i've read about writing so far. not a lot of technical instructions but rather soulful and that's what writing's really about in my opinion......more