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Writing

by Tijn Tjoelker · updated 7d ago

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  • “It’s simple. I just remove everything that is not David.”

    —Michelangelo

    Tijn Tjoelker added 7d ago

  • My writing practice:

    • Light a candle & incense 🕯️

    • Turn off my phone 📵

    • Meditate, feel what’s alive 🧘

    • Put on deep music 🌀

    • Walk when feeling stuck🚶

    Tijn Tjoelker added 11d ago

  • “The first draft of anything is shit”

    Ernest Hemingway

    from Deze 10 aanmoedigingen hangen boven mijn bureau

    Tijn Tjoelker added 15d ago

  • Run fast, stand still. This, the lesson from lizards. For all writers.

    from Zen in the Art of Writing by Ray Bradbury

    Tijn Tjoelker added 19d ago

  • “All writing is useless that does not contain a stimulus to activity”?

    from What did Nietzsche mean when he said, “All writing is useless that ... by Quora

    Tijn Tjoelker added 1mo ago

    —Nietzsche

  • Good writing will reflect in your nervous system. While reading, you will be able to focus, and ultimately, calm down. Some parts of you will be soothed, some—activated. And that particular sensation of soothing will come from reading some kind of truth .

    from Writing Through Your Body by Rūta Žemčugovaitė

    Tijn Tjoelker added 1mo ago

  • 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

    from From Garden to Wild Herbal Meadow by Rūta Žemčugovaitė

    Tijn Tjoelker added 1mo ago

  • Your writing prunes ideas in my mind. My writing prunes ideas in your mind.

    We visit each other’s psychic gardens—we get nourished, healed, awakened, and mutually directed at growth.

    from From Garden to Wild Herbal Meadow by Rūta Žemčugovaitė

    Tijn Tjoelker added 1mo ago

  • Questions to work with when inviting the sacred into your writing practice:

    1. Prepare your space. Clear the space physically, mentally, and energetically. Is there room for new ideas to come to you, when the area around you is occupied? Bring in objects that will support your practice. I like to light a candle, burn Tibetan incense, put on music that
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    from Writing as Architecting the Space for the Sacred in Other's Mind by Rūta Žemčugovaitė

    Tijn Tjoelker added 1mo ago