Writing the Bones

While reading Writing Down the Bones, I started to think about all the parts that I was doing wrong when starting to sit down and write. Within the rules, I was ignoring some of them quite badly. The major one was not to think logically while writing. Seems something that you can not turn off, right? I understand what it means, just write, don't think about how something is spelled and if the word fits completely into place. Just write to write, do not stop to think more than what your initial thought was (or as Natalie Goldberg put it placing thoughts on top of thoughts).

There is a part of the book where Ms. Goldberg goes into what to write about, and mentions that you should jot down ideas as they come to you. This, as I've done it in my own life for years, is true. Whenever I go to sit down and write I have something to say, but I'm unsure of how to say it. In a way it reminds me of what I'm doing now to compose this blog. I'm writing when I have ideas and then going back and perfecting them. In a way I'm writing down its own bone. A term for the structure that I am currently building up. I'm writing down a part of the book that jolts my mind into a frenzy. It is a good way to write out a blog as the week goes on. You've already done writing down some sort of structure of a writing piece and went to enhance the parts that needed enhancing and subtracting the others. 

So, in short, the first part of the book is a foundation on which you will be writing. It talks about some of the moments you could use to illustrate what happens inside of your mind. So far, this novel is becoming more and more interesting and provoking thought.