by Christa "Wojo" | May 15, 2019 | blog, 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 Christa "Wojo" | May 14, 2019 | blog, 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 Christa "Wojo" | May 12, 2019 | blog, 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...
by Christa "Wojo" | May 11, 2019 | blog, Kerouac's Writing Tips
Visionary tics shivering in the chest Dear Writer, How do you know when you’re onto something good? When your chest quakes with excitement. When you constantly obsess over your idea. When you hold in your pee for five hours because you can’t tear yourself away from...
by Christa "Wojo" | May 10, 2019 | blog, Kerouac's Writing Tips
No time for poetry but exactly what is Dear Writer, I have a tendency to overdecorate my sentences. I’m recovering from this addiction and must constantly remind myself that too much of a good thing can make for tedious reading. Don’t try too hard with your...
by Christa "Wojo" | May 8, 2019 | blog, Kerouac's Writing Tips
Continuing our elaboration of Jack Kerouac’s Belief and Technique for Modern Prose. Write what you want bottomless from bottom of the mind How low can you go? Often we don’t know what kind of cerebral garbage has piled up until we start writing. Once we get...
