Comments on: Zen and the Art of Writing – with Natalie Goldberg

By: Muslim Al-Taan

Muslim Al-Taan — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 23:05:50 +0000

Hi Jenny,
Thanks for your hosting and beautifully smiling face first.Thanks for your amazing interview with the terrific writer and painter Natalie Goldberg.Her sound is musically cool.I adored,to the bones,her fertile Small-Big book-”Writing Down The Bones”,second
.I wondered if you had interviwed the most popular poet Maya Angelou,third.As a matter of fact,my Ph.
research-project is on her poetry.I’m a poet too.Iraqi
by origin,Australian now.I’m writing poetry in both
Arabic and English.One of my poetic collections,”
Laments South”was awarded by Swiss Agency and published in Arabic and English in 2004.Thanks again with best wishes for more progress and success.Cheers.
Muslim Al-Taan
Poet and Ph.D Student
in Western Sydney University
College Of Arts
Creative Writing and Society
Sydney

By: Design Notes | The Practice of Writing Memoir

Design Notes | The Practice of Writing Memoir — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 18:26:00 +0000

[...] small general “store” of the Tassajara Zen Monastery sold Nathalie Goldberg’s books: Natalie Goldberg, the well-known painter, writer and writing teacher, who wrote the best-seller on how to write [...]

By: Tom Crawford

Tom Crawford — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 17:07:53 +0000

Hi, Natalie,

‘Ring me up’ via email when you get a moment.
I’m wanting to teach a little poetry writing to a
few serious writings in Santa Fe. You sent Judy my way three years back. X Tom

By: corpses « Karleen Koen — writing life

corpses « Karleen Koen — writing life — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 01:39:21 +0000

[...] I spent the week at a workshop given by Natalie Goldberg and the subject of the prompts for our writing practice was relationships. I felt like I was in a graveyard digging up bodies, the bodies of my failures in [...]

By: Natalie Goldberg on Writing | Lauren Passarelli

Natalie Goldberg on Writing | Lauren Passarelli — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 20:00:24 +0000

[...] Natalie Goldberg 2 Old Friend From Far Away 3 How To Write < < Wild Geese Elizabeth Gilbert ~ Swallow The Sun >>[...]

By: {my topography} - The sum of everything

{my topography} - The sum of everything — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 12:57:16 +0000

[...] Goldberg says to go, right now and write. She says to go and write as practice, and maybe it is time that I return to this, here. Maybe [...]

By: Malcolm Watts

Malcolm Watts — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 21:17:35 +0000

Hello Natalie. I am a self-published novelist and I have a website. I am also president of the Aurora Writers Group (Aurora Ontario). Do you do workshops? Please let me know if you do and what you might charge for coming to Aurora to do a one-day workshop with our group. Thanks so much.
Malcolm Watts BA MSW
mwatts.writer@yahoo.com

By: deb

deb — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 19:05:50 +0000

Hello- does anyone know if Natalies new book- old friend from far away – is the same as the previous DVD of the same name? I have the dvd already…so curious about the book.
thanks
DEB

By: andrew gronow

andrew gronow — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 02:34:50 +0000

this is a personal thank you to natalie goldberg for being the catalyst of my chemical writing reactions. i read writing down the bones and i have been using the composting technique for the last three years, it has brought my writing to another level. in a charity event i wrote poems for a pound and had many responses i made a colleague of mine cry tears of joy when i wrote about his children, i made a lot of people laugh and best of all one lady asked me to write about humanity, the poem was so good she now keeps it in her sacred buddhist prayer cabinet (excuse my ignorance but i forget what it is called) which is a great honour. since then i’ve had a gig as a poet where i read half an hour’s worth of my poetry from a stage in one of my local valleys, and recently i’ve had my first poem published in a book called “immortal verses”. as they say here in wales, the land of poets and singers, “diolch yn fawr” (thank you very much).

By: Ritergal

Ritergal — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 23:46:14 +0000

Natalie has been my writing hero for ages. Although I’ve not yet attended one of her workshops, I’ve read almost all her books, and refer to her often on my blog when I post about inner aspects of writing and the writing process. It’s terrific to hear her “thinking out loud” on this podcast, and I hope even half the people I’ve sent the link to will listen.

By: “Write Into the Present Moment…again…”

“Write Into the Present Moment…again…” — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 04:57:21 +0000

Ten years ago, I began my writing journey with Natalie Goldberg…I haven’t been the same since. I no longer cringe when I face the blank page. I simply pick up my pen and go.

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 17:02:33 +0000

Thank you, Natalie. I have owned and passed on many copies of “Writing Down the Bones.” Just yesterday, at a book signing for a young adult author, I again passed this book on to a young writer there.
Your books have done so much for so many. Thank you. I just finished “Long, Quiet Highway,” and I’m still digesting that.

By: Jackie

Jackie — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 16:14:45 +0000

Thanks to Natalie, I finally started writing and enjoying the sheer effort of writing. Nothing published or anywhere near that, but through her, I can finally just get on with it.

By: ybonesy

ybonesy — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 13:57:18 +0000

Great interview, Jenny. We did a post on it at our blogsite, red Ravine. It is a writing and art community blog, and writing practice is a basic part of what we do.

Thanks for doing this interview. We’ll check ThoughtCast for other author interviews in the future.

By: QuoinMonkey

QuoinMonkey — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 14:30:37 +0000

After listening to Natalie Goldberg’s new interview on ThoughtCast, ybonesy and I wanted to pass the information along to our readers. But we first wanted to take a moment to reiterate our gratitude for the teachings that Natalie has passed down to us. Our vision for red Ravine was born out of our writing practice and years of study with her.