Writing Through Your Body

Let go of anatomical body maps, and simply let your body feel how it feels. No need for what you’re feeling to correspond to any organs, or even to be inside of your anatomical body. If you have a sense or impression of something above you or to your left, that’s valid. Just let it be, don’t try to make it fit a rational map of where it’s possible ... See more

suggests that the self and its relation to the world is not merely a mental phenomenon. It has a sensual, embodied, and material dimension, and changes, even subtle ones, to the texture our experience can have profound consequences.

you’re not writing by yourself. There is a multiplicity of beings who are co-authoring your work.

Whatever you are writing — however academic or poetic, practical or abstract — let in otherness into your creative process.

By opening our writing habits towards newness and unpredictability, we can find that there’s so much more written at the end. Ri... See more

Feel into, interact with, and listen to everything in the felt-body, diligently and over a long period of time, in whatever ways feel fruitful. Patiently listen for physical sensations, emotional content, vague impressions, inchoate yearnings, long-forgotten memories, fantastic images—all of it. Get into the toes, the knees, the ulna, the space ove... See more