![]() Through timed, associative, and meditative exercises, Old Friend from Far Away guides you to the attentive state of thought in which you discover and open forgotten doors of memory.Ī tiny volume of writing prompts that encourage writers to write brief bits, coming at your life at an angle, through the "side door," as she does in her slim, fine memoirs (A Three Dog Life (about caring for her husband after a hit-and-run accident shatters his skull) and Safekeeping: Some True Stories from a Life from a Life (which shows how vignettes and snippets artfully arranged can convey the arc of a changing relationship, or relationships). To write memoir, Goldberg says we must first know how to remember. Old Friend from Far Away: The Practice of Writing Memoir by Natalie Goldberg ![]()
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