For more than twenty years Natalie Goldberg has been challenging and cheering on writers with her books and workshops. The secret of creativity Goldberg makes clear, is to subtract rules for writing, not add them. It's a process of "uneducation", which seems contradictory to teaching. Goldberg's experience in Zen meditation, which is essentially a subtractive process, has provided her with insights into the writing process. She outlines various writing methods in this book which teachers may find useful to encourage young writers.