{"id":11390,"date":"2022-02-27T17:38:22","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T00:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=11390"},"modified":"2022-02-27T17:38:27","modified_gmt":"2022-02-28T00:38:27","slug":"writing-is-intimate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/writing-is-intimate\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing is intimate . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Natalie-Goldberg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11391\" width=\"203\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Natalie-Goldberg.jpg 395w, https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Natalie-Goldberg-300x253.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Excerpt from The Sun November 2003, \u201c<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/thesunmagazine.org\/issues\/335\/keep-the-hand-moving\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/thesunmagazine.org\/issues\/335\/keep-the-hand-moving\" target=\"_blank\">Keep The Hand Moving<\/a>,\u201d Natalie Goldberg interviewed by Genie Zeiger:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zeiger asked Natalie, \u201cWhat is the difference between speaking our stories and writing them down?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Natalie: Writing it down is more intimate because, first of all, you are developing a relationship among your hand, your arm, your shoulder, your heart, and your mind. Then, because the story is recorded, you have a chance to read it later, so you can see who you are and come home to yourself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I tell students to read deeply\u2014which doesn\u2019t mean reading all the great literature but just reading carefully, studying the mind of the author rather than whipping through the book. Reading is important because when you read, you enter the mind of the author, and so you get to study a practiced mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Notice: How do writers create structure in a book? How do they turn phrases and present facts?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Note from Marlene:<\/strong> Your turn. Just Write!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More about <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/natalie-goldberg-talks-about-writing-practice\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/natalie-goldberg-talks-about-writing-practice\/\" target=\"_blank\">writing practice<\/a> from Natalie Goldberg<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>#amwriting #justwrite #imawriter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt from The Sun November 2003, \u201cKeep The Hand Moving,\u201d Natalie Goldberg interviewed by Genie Zeiger: Zeiger asked Natalie, \u201cWhat is the difference between speaking our stories and writing them down?\u201d Natalie: Writing it down is more intimate because, first of all, you are developing a relationship among your hand, your arm, your shoulder, your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-write-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43Dj8-2XI","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11390"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11394,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11390\/revisions\/11394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}