The excerpt from Natalie Goldberg’s “Writing Down the Bones” emphasizes writing as a perennial developmental process that requires commitment to reach the goal of becoming an adept writer. I liked the fact that Goldberg recognizes the various problems a budding writer faces such as mistrust of one’s own instinct, impatience, aggression, and fear of revealing true emotions. She provides a good solution to the problems she recognizes by advising that a writer should embrace and release his emotions if he wants to write something that resonates with the man inside and will ultimately convey his feelings unto his readers. The excerpt from Betsy Lerner’s “The Forest for the Trees” showcased the journey a writer makes to stardom, the misconceptions