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Thunder and Lightning: Cracking Open the Writer's Craft
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from Bantam Dell Pub Group (June 1, 2000)
9780553095289 | details & prices | 224 pages | 6.00 × 8.75 × 1.00 in. | 0.85 lbs | List price $24.95
About: Explains how to transform an initial creative inspiration into a finished essay, story, poem, novel, or memoir, discussing such topics as the structure of writing, character and plot development, and what one can learn from another writer.
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Reprint edition from Bantam Dell Pub Group (October 1, 2001)
9780553374964 | details & prices | 5.50 × 8.25 × 0.75 in. | 0.50 lbs | List price $17.00
About: Explains how to transform an initial creative inspiration into a finished essay, story, poem, novel, or memoir, discussing such topics as the structure of writing, character and plot development, and what one can learn from another writer.
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Unabridged edition from Sounds True (August 1, 2000)
9781564558121 | details & prices | 4.25 × 7.25 × 1.50 in. | 0.55 lbs | List price $29.95
About: Thunder and Lightning Natalie Goldberg On this sequel to her perennial bestseller Writing Down the Bones, Natalie Goldberg gives writers a map for taking their best ideas and inspirations – their thunder and lightning – and turning them into finished stories, essays, and novels, ready for publication.
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Publisher Bantam Dell Pub Group
Publication date June 1, 2000
Pages 224
Binding Hardcover
Book category Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13 9780553095289
ISBN-10 0553095285
Dimensions 1 by 6 by 8.75 in.
Weight 0.85 lbs.
Availability§ Publisher Out of Stock Indefinitely
Original list price $24.95
Amazon.com says people who bought this book also bought:
Life's Companion | Writing Down The Bones | One Year to a Writing Life | Wild Mind | Old Friend from Far Away
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Summary
The sequel to Writing Down the Bones and Wild Mind explains how to transform an initial inspiration--the thunder and lightning--into a finished essay, story, poem, novel, or memoir, discussing such topics as the structure of writing, what one can learn from another writer, character and plot development, and how to get the most out of a writing workshop. (view table of contents)
Amazon.com description: Amazon.com Review: More musings from Natalie Goldberg on writing as a spiritual path, as "an authentic Zen way." Goldberg has some nice things to say about the importance of the process of writing. She recommends her students spend two years at writing "practice" before undertaking a specific project, so that they can "get in touch with their wild minds." The most inspired writing, she says, comes when one's conscious mind gets out of the way. Still, we are puzzled by Thunder and Lightning: is it really meant to show us how to turn "our flashes of inspiration ... into a polished piece of work," as the book jacket touts? It comes off more as a collection of Goldberg's ruminations on writing and reading. Goldberg tells us about her friend Julie's writing process. Another pal, Kate, talks about plot. We study Styron with Goldberg's workshop students and take a road trip through the South to try to figure out just how some of the poorest states in the union managed to produce so many great writers. There are some good stories here, and it's vaguely interesting to know what Nat likes to order when she does her café writing or lunches with her editors, but we end up desiring a little less wandering and a little more focus. --Jane Steinberg

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