by Christa "Wojo" | 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 Christa "Wojo" | 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 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...
