Creative Writing Exercises to Cure Writer's Block

Kerouac's Belief and Technique for Modern Prose

List of Essentials


• Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy
  
• Submissive to everything, open, listening
  
• Try never get drunk outside yr own house
  
• Be in love with yr life
  
• Something that you feel will find its own form
  
• Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind
  
• Blow as deep as you want to blow
  
• Write what you want bottomless from bottom of mind
  
• The unspeakable visions of the individual
  
• No time for poetry but exactly what is
  
• Visionary tics shivering in the chest
  
• In tranced fixation dreaming upon object before you
  
• Remove literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition
  
• Like Proust be an old teahead of time
  
• Telling the true story of the world in interior monolog
  
• The jewel center of interest is the eye within the eye
  
• Write in recollection and amazement for yourself
  
• Work from pithy middle eye out, swimming in language sea
  
• Accept loss forever
  
• Believe in the holy contour of life
  
• Struggle to sketch the flow that already exists intact in mind
  
• Don't think of words when you stop but to see picture better
  
• Keep track of every day the date emblazoned in yr morning
  
• No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge
  
• Write for the world to read and see yr exact pictures of it
  
• Bookmovie is the movie in words, the visual American form
  
• In Praise of Character in the Bleak inhuman Loneliness
  
• Composing wild, undisciplined, pure, coming in from under, crazier the better
  
• You're a Genius all the time
  
• Writer-Director of Earthly movies Sponsored & Angeled in Heaven
  
  As ever,
  Jack
  

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