Writing

Continuing on with my fanatical reading of Melissa's archives, I came across these writing tips on subconscious writing from Jack Kerouac that she posted a while back.

These struck me for a few reasons: Part of the reason I started this blog was to write more. Yes, my posts are mostly short blurbs raving about some product or person and obviously I'm not redefining the written word here, but I am still {trying} to write daily in any form.

These are her favorites and I wanted to share them with you:

-Scribble secret notes, and wild typewritten pages, for your own joy

-Submissive to everything, open, listening

-Be in love with your life

-Something that you feel will find its own form

-Blow as deep as you want to blow

-Write what you want bottomless from bottom of the mind

-Remove literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition

-Telling the true story of the world in interior monologue

-Write in recollection and amazement for yourself

-No fear or shame in the dignity of your experience, language and knowledge

-Write for the world to read and see your exact pictures of it

-Composing wild, undisciplined, pure, coming in from under, crazier the better

For anyone else who is trying to write more, Marta recently started a writing prompt series on her blog that you should check out. The third installment is here.

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