Wishing you a Happy Disability Pride Month! And seeking any and all inspiring quotes about writing, to guide those who are stuck in uncharted literary waters (Asking for a friend).
Hello and how you look so pretty like a happy flower.
I’ve been meaning to write to you. However sometimes words to arrive in order. They sort of orbit around. Sometimes I go out of orbit when I get overwhelmed. My son calls it housecatting when he needs to escape the noise.
I most enjoyed my staycations. The fam and fireworks and the comforts of home sounds sweet. And the full fabulous trees so green so alive. Looks like a wonderful place to write.
Belief and Technique for Modern Prose by Jack Kerouac
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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 the 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
I definitely identify with this experience of reliving the past through a creative project. In the past two years that I've been working on my art exhibit, "The Extraordinary, Ordinary Nature of Interabled Love", I've spent hours and hours pouring over old photos to be used as reference images for paintings in the exhibit. Sometimes the memories were pleasant and sometimes not.
When I'm painting, I find myself deeply reliving that moment in time. In most of my work, I focus on the pleasure of simple moments, but for some pieces, it did involve delving into painful and traumatic times. One piece I left right to the end was a representation of when the paramedics were called to our apartment after what we think was a seizure I had back in 2021. That one hit way too close to home given my recent fracture and another very traumatic paramedic call. I knowingly didn't linger on that piece of artwork to ensure I didn't get bogged down in its trauma.
As you were asking about resources, one book that I often recommend to writers in my work as a Creativity Coach is Elizabeth Gilbert's "Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear". I've always liked the tone she sets around her writing and the way she holds her creativity very lightly. She did a great TEDtalk many years ago that I highly recommend if you haven't seen it already -- https://www.ted.com/talks/elizabeth_gilbert_your_elusive_creative_genius
Hello and how you look so pretty like a happy flower.
I’ve been meaning to write to you. However sometimes words to arrive in order. They sort of orbit around. Sometimes I go out of orbit when I get overwhelmed. My son calls it housecatting when he needs to escape the noise.
I most enjoyed my staycations. The fam and fireworks and the comforts of home sounds sweet. And the full fabulous trees so green so alive. Looks like a wonderful place to write.
Belief and Technique for Modern Prose by Jack Kerouac
~•~
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 the 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
~•~
Happy Summer, Gaelynn Lea 🐚
What a beautiful passage! Thanks for sharing!
I definitely identify with this experience of reliving the past through a creative project. In the past two years that I've been working on my art exhibit, "The Extraordinary, Ordinary Nature of Interabled Love", I've spent hours and hours pouring over old photos to be used as reference images for paintings in the exhibit. Sometimes the memories were pleasant and sometimes not.
When I'm painting, I find myself deeply reliving that moment in time. In most of my work, I focus on the pleasure of simple moments, but for some pieces, it did involve delving into painful and traumatic times. One piece I left right to the end was a representation of when the paramedics were called to our apartment after what we think was a seizure I had back in 2021. That one hit way too close to home given my recent fracture and another very traumatic paramedic call. I knowingly didn't linger on that piece of artwork to ensure I didn't get bogged down in its trauma.
As you were asking about resources, one book that I often recommend to writers in my work as a Creativity Coach is Elizabeth Gilbert's "Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear". I've always liked the tone she sets around her writing and the way she holds her creativity very lightly. She did a great TEDtalk many years ago that I highly recommend if you haven't seen it already -- https://www.ted.com/talks/elizabeth_gilbert_your_elusive_creative_genius
Best of luck in your writing!