Binding: Hardcover
Description: Bestselling author and teacher Natalie Goldberg shares her inspiring personal journey out of a devastating period of writer's block and back into a life of growth creativity and healing. Natalie Goldberg has been writing for the past fifty years. But at the beginning of the pandemic she suddenly wasn t able to write anymore. Her imaginative wellspring had dried up and she was forced to ask herself: what do I do when what has always worked for me doesn t work anymore? In this beautifully written inspiring personal account Natalie shares her harrowing journey out of creative paralysis and back onto the page. When all of her tried and true methods meditation sitting still writing practice stopped working she had to take drastic action. She got into her car and left New Mexico in search of a new inventive source. In her journey through the western states she visited famous literary sites searching for the spark that would reignite her ability to write. And next to Hemingway's grave she found it. Get going he seemed to say to her and she did. Now Natalie shares her story of traveling through literary and personal memory to clarify her way forward struggling to make sense of her difficult relationships with parents and teachers and digging into her long - held grief. Ultimately she discovers how to write through the emptiness in order to fill up the world with compassion healing and renewed liveliness. For anyone struggling to reconnect with their own creative source Writing on Empty is a gentle and instructive guidebook back to remembering what truly matters.
Title: Writing On Empty A Guide To Finding Your Voice
Author(s): Goldberg Natalie
Publisher: St Martin's Press
Barcode: 9781250342546
Pages: 176 Pages
Publication Date: 7/9/2024
Category: Self-Help & Personal Development