Natalie Goldberg: Doing

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“My goal is to write every day. I say it is my ideal. I am careful not to pass judgment or create anxiety if I do not do it. No one lives up to his ideal.”

Natalie Goldberg

“Anything you do fully is an alone journey.”

Natalie Goldberg

Variant: Anything we fully do is an alone journey.
Source: Writing Down the Bones

“After you have finished a piece of work, the work is then none of your business. Go on and do something else.”

Natalie Goldberg

Source: Wild Mind: Living the Writer's Life

Business

“What is important is not just what you do - "I am writing a book"”

Natalie Goldberg book Writing Down the Bones

but how you do it, how you approach it, and what you come to value.
[…] There are many realities. We should remember this when we get too caught in being concerned about the way the rest of the world lives or how we think they live.
Essay, "Every Monday". p.127
Writing Down the Bones (1986)

Books

“Anything we fully do is an alone journey. […] You are alone when you write a book. Accept that and take in any love and support that is given to you, but don't have expectations of how it is supposed to be.”

Natalie Goldberg book Writing Down the Bones

Epilogue. p.179, 180
Writing Down the Bones (1986)

Support , Books , Love

“This is the practice school of writing. Like running, the more you do it, the better you get at it. […] You practice whether you want to or not.
Through practice you actually do get better.
Sit down with the least expectation of yourself; say "I am free to write the worst junk in the world."”

Natalie Goldberg book Writing Down the Bones

You have to give yourself the space to write a lot without a destination.
Essay, "Writing as a practice". p.11
Writing Down the Bones (1986)

School , World