I’m re-reading Natalie Goldberg’s Writing Down the Bones. Like her Wild Mind, it’s less on tactics and more on the mindset of a writer and the writer life. The books make you feel okay with the disgust you have for your own writing and self-loathing you feel almost continuously. Or maybe that’s just me. I have internalized an early chapter in the book: “Writing as a Practice”. You write every day. It’s what you do. And the more you do it, the more it be comes a habit and hopeful...
