We are in Taos, NM. I've been keeping my eye out for a sighting of Natalie Goldberg, author of Writing Down the Bones and other books. She lives here. George saw Julia Roberts on a corner a number of years ago, but I'm having no luck.
Indirectly, Natalie Goldberg's writing exercises led to our book, RV Traveling Tales: Women's Journeys on the Open Road. Betty Prange, in the first piece, writes about how five of us began writing by doing Natalie's exercises at Alice's suggestion and how that spread. All five women who were there that day have stories in the book.
We also include Natalie Goldberg's books as resources and describe her writing exercises in our ebook, Taking the Mystery Out of RV Writing. Her methods can definitely get your writing going.
Alice and I took a workshop from Natalie in Sedona a couple of years ago. We came away inspired! We talked to her at the artist's reception (she is also a painter) and gave her a copy of RV Traveling Tales. I doubt she'd recognize me, though!
I do associate Taos with writing - besides Natalie Goldberg there's Julia Cameron (Artist's Way), and Sue Henry's RV mystery (Tooth of Time) that was set here. To make up for it we visited Moby Dickens bookstore and now I have plenty to read. I tend to get abioliophobic when I get low on books to read. (Nicky Boston wrote about that in "The Addiction" in RV Traveling Tales.)
We're leaving tomorrow for Santa Fe so chances are I'll miss Natalie this visit. Maybe I'll have better luck next time.
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