10.25.2004

Belief and Technique for Modern Prose

LIST OF ESSENTIALS


  1. Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy
  2. Submissive to everything, open, listening
  3. Try never get drunk outside yr own house
  4. Be in love with yr life
  5. Something that you feel will find its own form
  6. Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind
  7. Blow as deep as you want to blow
  8. Write what you want bottomless from bottom of the mind
  9. The unspeakable visions of the individual
  10. No time for poetry but exactly what is
  11. Visionary tics shivering in the chest
  12. In tranced fixation dreaming upon object before you
  13. Remove literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition
  14. Like Proust be an old teahead of time
  15. Telling the true story of the world in interior monolog
  16. The jewel center of interest is the eye within the eye
  17. Write in recollection and amazement for yourself
  18. Work from pithy middle eye out, swimming in language sea
  19. Accept loss forever
  20. Believe in the holy contour of life
  21. Struggle to sketch the flow that already exists intact in mind
  22. Dont think of words when you stop but to see the picture better
  23. Keep track of every day the date emblazoned in yr morning
  24. No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge
  25. Write for the world to read and see yr exact pictures of it
  26. Bookmovie is the movie in words, the visual American form
  27. In praise of Character in the Bleak inhuman Lonliness
  28. Composing wild, undisciplined, pure. coming in from under, crazier the better
  29. You're a Genius all the time
  30. Writer-Director of Earthly movies Sponsored & Angeled in heaven

(from Jack Kerouac's Essentials of Spontaneous Prose)

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5 Comments:

Blogger k_sra said...

The best writing advice I ever got...

25/10/04 14:09  
Blogger dag said...

Most of them are imaginative, but could use a little grammar. Also, I would suggest making an amendment to #3. As long as you are either with trusted sober company, or are well away from civilization, it IS OK to get drunk away from the home and in some cases can be more rewarding than a sheltered buzz.

Other than that, I anxiously await the fruits of your inspirations.

26/10/04 12:20  
Blogger Worldgineer said...

The homeless thank you for that modification.

My favorite is 19. It's tough to move forward without it.

26/10/04 12:38  
Blogger Worldgineer said...

Oh, and for dag: her inspired fruit

26/10/04 12:45  
Blogger k_sra said...

I've only been drunk to puking once and I managed to mss the carpet. But YR comment made me laugh.

28/10/04 13:12  

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