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# Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
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- Published: 2026-09-05T21:25:29.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-05T22:36:55.000Z
- Description: Natalie Goldberg, 1986
- Author: Meghan Walter
- Tags: Reading, On writing, #Import 2026-09-05 14:48

Distributed by Random House · 1986 · 256 pages · [ISBN 1570622582](https://openlibrary.org/isbn/1570622582?ref=meghantheengineer.com)

For more than twenty years Natalie Goldberg has been challenging and cheering on writers with her books and workshops. In her groundbreaking first book, she brings together Zen meditation and writing in a new way. Writing practice, as she calls it, is no different from other forms of Zen practice —"it is backed by two thousand years of studying the mind.

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