{"id":2482,"date":"2014-12-30T19:48:16","date_gmt":"2014-12-31T02:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=2482"},"modified":"2025-11-15T07:24:41","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T07:24:41","slug":"first-thoughts-have-tremendous-energy-natalie-goldberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breanamarie.com\/playground\/quotes-of-inspiration\/first-thoughts-have-tremendous-energy-natalie-goldberg\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;First thoughts have tremendous energy.&#8221; Natalie Goldberg"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote has-deep-burgandy-color has-text-color has-link-color has-def-font-size wp-elements-9339e75f507de44d0f65373631bc9181 has-background\" style=\"font-style:italic;font-weight:600;background-image:url(&apos;https:\/\/breanamarie.com\/playground\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/smudge1.png&apos;);background-position:50% 50%;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-size:contain;\"><blockquote><p>First thoughts have tremendous energy. It is the way the mind first flashes on something.<\/p><cite>\u2014 Natalie Goldberg<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-def-font-size\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nataliegoldberg.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Natalie Goldberg<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Writing-Down-Bones-Freeing-Writer\/dp\/1590302613\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1419993269&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=Writing+Down+the+Bones\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Writing Down the Bones<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Natalie-Goldberg.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Natalie-Goldberg-150x150.png\" alt=\"Natalie Goldberg\" class=\"wp-image-2487\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-def-font-size\">Nat\u2019s quote perfectly describes what a free write can do . . . opens us up to ideas and thoughts that lie within us.&nbsp; Try it. Go to the prompts category&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?cat=4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>&nbsp;or&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewritespot.us\/writingprompt.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>&nbsp;and choose a prompt. Then write . . . freely. Just Write!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First thoughts have tremendous energy. It is the way the mind first flashes on something. \u2014 Natalie Goldberg Natalie Goldberg,\u00a0Writing Down the Bones. Nat\u2019s quote perfectly describes what a free write can do . . . opens us up to ideas and thoughts that lie within us.&nbsp; Try it. Go to the prompts category&nbsp;here&nbsp;or&nbsp;here&nbsp;and choose [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-post-with-comments","format":"standard","meta":{"selected_specialist_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[2053],"class_list":["post-2482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes-of-inspiration","tag-writing-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/breanamarie.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/breanamarie.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/breanamarie.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/breanamarie.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/breanamarie.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/breanamarie.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14930,"href":"https:\/\/breanamarie.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2482\/revisions\/14930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/breanamarie.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/breanamarie.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/breanamarie.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}