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I want to know
how a ferryman feels
when the river runs
dry.
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louise: according to f. scott fitzgerald «
Things to worry about:
Worry about courage
Worry about cleanliness
Worry about efficiency
Worry about horsemanship
Things not to worry about:
Don’t worry about popular opinion
Don’t worry about dolls
Don’t worry about the past
Don’t worry about the future
Don’t worry about growing…
via colleenlouise
A letter from Henry Miller to Anais Nin, 1932.
“I came away with pieces of you sticking to me; I am walking about, swimming, in an ocean of blood, your Andalusian blood, distilled and poisonous. I saw you as the mistress of your home, a Moor with a heavy face, a negress with a white body, eyes all over your skin, woman, woman, woman! I can’t see how I can go on living away from you…
Summer in London
For those of you who don’t know, I play the cello.
This is important right now because I intend to take to the streets of London this summer & play some Bach, Elgar & sharp edged Blues for those who stop & listen, just for the hell of it.
I imagine myself in Hyde Park Corner or Covent Garden, meeting strangers & lapping in the, albeit mild, British sunshine.
Then I’ll go buy some pizza and a beer with whatever money I’ve made & sit in the grass, pigging out to my heart’s content.
2 months ago
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theatlantic:
6 Writing Tips From John Steinbeck
1. Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Lose track of the 400 pages and write just one page for each day, it helps. Then when it gets finished, you are always surprised.
2. Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper. Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down. Rewrite in process is usually found to be an excuse for not going on. It also interferes with flow and rhythm which can only come from a kind of unconscious association with the material.
3. Forget your generalized audience. In the first place, the nameless, faceless audience will scare you to death and in the second place, unlike the theater, it doesn’t exist. In writing, your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person—a real person you know, or an imagined person and write to that one.
4. If a scene or a section gets the better of you and you still think you want it—bypass it and go on. When you have finished the whole you can come back to it and then you may find that the reason it gave trouble is because it didn’t belong there.
5. Beware of a scene that becomes too dear to you, dearer than the rest. It will usually be found that it is out of drawing.
6. If you are using dialogue—say it aloud as you write it. Only then will it have the sound of speech.
Read more. [Image: AP]
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6 Writing Tips From John Steinbeck
1. Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Lose track of the 400 pages and write just one page for each day, it helps. Then when it gets finished, you are always surprised.
2. Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper. Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down. Rewrite in process is usually found to be an excuse for not going on. It also interferes with flow and rhythm which can only come from a kind of unconscious association with the material.
3. Forget your generalized audience. In the first place, the nameless, faceless audience will scare you to death and in the second place, unlike the theater, it doesn’t exist. In writing, your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person—a real person you know, or an imagined person and write to that one.
4. If a scene or a section gets the better of you and you still think you want it—bypass it and go on. When you have finished the whole you can come back to it and then you may find that the reason it gave trouble is because it didn’t belong there.
5. Beware of a scene that becomes too dear to you, dearer than the rest. It will usually be found that it is out of drawing.
6. If you are using dialogue—say it aloud as you write it. Only then will it have the sound of speech.
Read more. [Image: AP]
Excellent.
via neil-gaiman
3 months ago
Swinging from the Chandelier
I want to chew gum on the balcony of the absurd.
I want God on a stick, kind of like corn.
I want all the honey yogurt of Los Angeles in a giant pot on my desk when I get back from the bathroom.
I want to know my organs up close, name them after unusual saints, teach them to read. Breton, Beckett, Bukowski.
I want to eat a pomegranate. I want to learn to write with my left hand. I’ve always felt the ambidextrous must have a special place in heaven.
I am nitrogen and cartilage. I am water. I am 90% transferable. Which is it, a miracle or a tragedy?
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