One poem or story doesn't matter one way or the other. It's the proces…

Natalie Goldberg
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One poem or story doesn't matter one way or the other. It's the process of writing and life that matters. ✨ Natalie Goldberg (2016). Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within, p.16, Shambhala Publications
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One poem or story doesn't matter one way or the other. It's the process of writing and life that matters. ✨ Natalie Goldberg (2016). Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within, p.16, Shambhala Publications

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