One of the topics that is mentioned in Goldberg's book is "Writing practice softens the heart and mind, helps to keep us flexible so that rigid distinctions between apples and milk, tigers and celery, disappear. This is important to remember because sometimes when I write I forget that I can write whatever I feel like writing. This can be shown in the short fiction packet.
Another topic is that "writing is not a McDonald's burger." This means that there is no set writing structure and you can freelance everything. This pertains to every writer because they all sit down and look either at the computer screen or a piece of paper. This can also be shown in one of the poems in the sonnets packet where the whole poem was out of order.
Another topic from Goldberg's book is "You can't just mix the ingredients in a bowl; they have no life." This is talking about how writing is like baking a cake. You write words and then it becomes a 'cake' when you give it meaning. The writing is just a goopy mess and you give it some love and it becomes the piece you want. It makes the piece of writing alive.
