by christawojo@gmail.com | May 21, 2019 | blog, Kerouac's Writing Tips
I took a few days off from this blog and from working on my WIP to reflect on the past and recover enough strength to continue. It’s funny because I wondered what I would write for this quote about loss and I realize I’ve been swimming in it. I’m working...
by christawojo@gmail.com | May 18, 2019 | blog, Kerouac's Writing Tips
Work from pithy middle eye out, swimming in language sea So, as we discussed in a previous post, we don’t want to try too hard with our prose. If we get too carried away we’re in danger of going into the purple zone. Purple prose is writing that is overly...
by christawojo@gmail.com | May 17, 2019 | blog, 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 | blog, 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 | 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 christawojo@gmail.com | 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...
