Some advice from Kerouac

Jack Kerouac offered up 30 writing tips in something he called "Belief and Technique for Modern Prose."


Here are my favorite ten:


1. Scribbles secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy
2. Something that you feel will find its own form
3. Remove literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition
4. Work from pithy middle eye out, swimming in language sea
5. Don't think of words when you stop but to see picture better
6. No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge
7. In praise of Character in the Bleak inhuman Loneliness
8. Composing wild, undisciplined, pure, coming in from under, crazier the better
9. You're a Genius all the time
10. Writer-Director of Earthly movies Sponsored & Angeled in Heaven