THUNDER AND LIGHTNING Cracking Open the Writer's Craft

The focus here is on reclaiming the true, compassionate self, the one that has powerful stuff to write but is sidetracked by life, worry, or alienation from the universal good. The author of Writing Down the Bones, Goldberg is an expert on how to write from the creative heart, and she is wonderful at commiserating with us about how writers are jerked around by the urge to write and then paralyzed by the fear of how it will sound to others or to God. This is a warm narrative with no intellectualizations, no pretense, and hardly any prescriptions. Listeners will hear everything they need to know about overcoming their fears and manifesting their writing destiny. T.W. © AudioFile 2001, Portland, Maine [Published: APR/MAY 01]