When I finished the introduction of Goldberg's Writing Down the Bones, this excerpt stuck out to me: "You may also open to any chapter and read it. Each chapter is designed to be its own whole." I decided to take this snippet of advice and jump to a nonconsecutive chapter. Based off the title alone, I was intrigued by Man Eats Car and chose to start my short reading journey there.

Man Eats Car addresses the internal struggle that writers face between their rigid logic and the spontaneity of thought. I felt a connection to this, as I mentioned in my first blog post about the anxiety I felt when stringing together sentences, never really sure if there was a cohesive flow to my passages as a whole. It shows the importance of keeping your writing organic. "Your mind is leaping, your writing will leap, but it won't be artificial."

In First Thoughts, Goldberg set rules to writing exercises that are essentially a lack of rules. She tells you to keep your hand moving, to not correct any mistakes or look back on your own writing, to lose control. This is something that I've tried to do myself. It was actually very difficult to let myself loose and not give myself any type of boundaries. I now plan on doing this exercise again, this time on a giant sketch pad with my favorite blue sharpie marker pen. I sense it'll start with the writing process itself, followed by superficial thoughts before diving into my real feelings. I'll express my true fears and doubts. Once thats uncovered you're just left with the truly bizarre senselessness that's hidden in the recesses of your mind, the nitty-gritty stuff that some people aren't even aware exists.