Writing
Ray Bradbury talks about the importance of not thinking when he is writing. He says that when he arrives at the typewriter, his task is to be living. To let his soul pour out onto the page. To quiet the mind and let his body do the talking. Then, he checks his work afterwards using the mind as a ‘corrective force’ to refine. But he uses the body to... See more
‘The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.’ by Karen Blixen, writing as Isak Dinesen
“All the things that are wrong in the world seem conquered by a library’s simple unspoken promise: Here I am, please tell me your story; here is my story, please listen.”
― Susan Orlean, The Library Book
You have to begin.
Go, do it badly at first,
with sweaty palms
and shaking limbs
and gaps in what you know.
You have to start,
and perhaps you won’t feel ready
or like you’ve fully prepared.
Perhaps you’ll feel too late, too small, too scared.
But it’s okay that you did not appear on earth
with all the skills and information.
It’s okay that there are things
... See moreWrite something ugly and tangled and undeveloped. Not to produce or sound intelligent, but it’s to hear yourself again. To track the way your mind moves. To think your own thoughts without structure or pressure or input. You write to find out what you think. To watch your brain unfold in real time, without a filter.
unrot your brain
Geoffrey Roberts's emotional word wheel helps describe emotions. https://t.co/2m5Lx9R3km