For the sake of your unique life, one that no one could ever live the same, one that no one could ever feel the same, write about it. Write your dullest moments like they mean something because they do. You’re creation is beyond events, it’s every dent you make into the universe as you do ordinary things. Your likeness does not exist anywhere else.... See more

Write before your memory becomes too unreliable, write before your pen starts to tremble or your vision goes away. Tell it all, even the ordinary and most uninteresting things, your stories matter my darling.

“Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.”

Louis L'Amour

“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”

Sylvia Plath.

“Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly – they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.”

Aldous Huxley.

You cannot write about what is layered. You must reduce it down to the smallest being before you understand it. So do you know who you are enough to fill a book or a column? In your naked, vulnerable, hysterical, mad state, what can you write?

The sun.

Your pillow.

Does your body ache?

Joy.

Home.

Draw. Sketch. Pictures.

Essays.

Write the people you know letters.