By Katie Tallo
Natalie Goldberg begins her book, Thunder and Lightening, with a warning.
Know that you will eventually have to leave everything behind; the writing will demand it of you. Bareboned you are on the path with no markers, only the skulls of those who never made it back … Now that you have been warned, let me also say this: if you want to know what you’re made of, if you want to stand on death’s dark face and leave behind the weary yellow coat of yourself, then just now – I hear it – the heavy wooden doors of the cloister of no return creaking open. Please enter.
Do I really have to be this brave to commit to a life as a writer – this naked, this scary, this breathtakingly dramatic?... More...
