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- Keep your hand moving.
Natalie Goldberg • Wild Mind: Living the Writer's Life
So our job as writers is not to diddle around our whole lives in the dot but to take one big step out of it and sink into the big sky and write from there. Let everything run through us and grab as much as we can of it with a pen and paper. Let yourself live in something that is already rightfully yours—your own wild mind.
Natalie Goldberg • Wild Mind: Living the Writer's Life
“Keep your hand moving” strengthens the creator and gives little space for the editor to jump in.
Natalie Goldberg • Wild Mind: Living the Writer's Life
Author and writing instructor Natalie Goldberg on how to improve your writing (or anything else):
“In order to improve your writing, you have to practice just like any other sport. But don’t be dutiful and make it into a blind routine. “Yes, I have written an hour today and I wrote an hour yesterday and an hour the day before.” Don’t just put in you... See more
“In order to improve your writing, you have to practice just like any other sport. But don’t be dutiful and make it into a blind routine. “Yes, I have written an hour today and I wrote an hour yesterday and an hour the day before.” Don’t just put in you... See more
3-2-1: On progress, friendship, and how to improve your writing
It’s better to figure out what you want to say in the actual act of writing.
Natalie Goldberg • Wild Mind: Living the Writer's Life
If I give myself a little gap, I’m off for an hour daydreaming. You have to learn your own rhythm, but make sure you do some focused, disciplined “keeping the hand moving” to learn about cutting through resistance.
Natalie Goldberg • Wild Mind: Living the Writer's Life
- Don’t worry about punctuation, spelling, grammar.