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Writers on Writing: Natalie Goldberg

August 28, 2014

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From O Magazine: http://www.oprah.com/spirit/Writing-Tips-How-to-Write-Better-Natalie-Goldberg

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Perpetually figuring things out...

Everything that I post on this blog (unless otherwise indicated as being "old" or "from the archives") is a rough draft. Usually it's the "poem draft." I'll scrawl something out by hand or sometimes I'll type out a jumble of stuff, and then I draft it into what could be then called an actual poem. This is the version that gets posted for everyone to see. I've done this, so far, simply to force myself to write more. I am a big time reviser and will revise a poem from it's poem draft form several times. So feel free to post comments about things that would make the poems better, they are not in their final stages. Most of what I'm doing here is experimenting. Today I wrote what I was trying to make into a sort of prose poem. I'm not very good at prose poems, so it turned out like more of a weird short essay. Anyway, here's the attepmt: What my nose has to do with it. My husband likes complicated foods like stir fries and casse...

On Being Animated Poetry Series

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New Year, New Goals

It's January and I'm just now posting a reflection to November's writing challenge. I failed NaNoWriMo's page-a-day challenge again. I'm not sure how close I got (19 of 30 after looking). I did better than last year, but I know that November is a pretty terrible month for me to do a writing challenge. But, without realizing (and not even having looked at my folder of poems from last year until today), I eked out my 60 poems minimum goal for the year. I am flubbing this just slightly because a handful of those poems are revisions from the great daily writing challenge of 2014 (say that last part like a movie announcer). But I made it through another year without neglecting my writing completely, and that's the most important part. Another success I had this year, probably the biggest success, is that I finally got through the poems from 2014. This summer I finished reading and "triaging" them into categories so that I could work on them. I didn...

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