by christawojo@gmail.com | May 17, 2019 | Dear Writer, Kerouac's Writing Tips
Write in recollection and amazement for yourself I was talking to a close writing friend the other day, and he said that he would forgive a writer of a janky plot if there was underlying passion and depth. I agreed. When you pick up your typical mass market paperback,...
by christawojo@gmail.com | May 16, 2019 | Dear Writer, Kerouac's Writing Tips
The jewel center of interest is the eye within the eye So, we are past the halfway mark of Jack Kerouac’s Belief and Technique for Modern Prose, and he is riffing off his ideas like a heroin-infused jazz musician. I am doing my best to elaborate on them, and I can’t...
by christawojo@gmail.com | May 15, 2019 | Dear Writer, Kerouac's Writing Tips
Telling the true story of the world in interior monolog We all walk around with an interior monolog. For most of us, it’s a jumble of surface thoughts like… What should I make for dinner? Did I pay the internet bill? Why did this asshole cut me off in traffic?...
by christawojo@gmail.com | May 14, 2019 | Dear Writer, Kerouac's Writing Tips
Like Proust be an old teahead of time I think we can safely say that Jack Kerouac may have been intoxicated when he wrote these writing tips. ‘Teahead’ means ‘pothead’ (I had to Google that). I don’t know if Marcel Proust was really a pothead...
by christawojo@gmail.com | May 12, 2019 | Dear Writer, Kerouac's Writing Tips
In tranced fixation dreaming upon object before you Dear Writer, Have you ever been in a writing trance? The muse. Divine inspiration. The force. Whatever you want to call it, when it’s there, you feel it. Nothing can stop you from creating the art you want to...
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