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Writing Manifesto Activity
Inspired by Jack Kerouac
From the 9/27/08 WG Meeting |
Below is a list of 17 (of 30) guidelines Jack Kerouac used in his writing. Read them, then generate your own list of 15 – 20 guidelines for your own writing. Begin your list with #17.
1. Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for your own joy
2. Respectful (subservient) to everything, open, listening
3. Be in love with your life
4. Something that you feel will find its own form
5. Visionary tics shivering in the chest
6. Entranced fixation dreaming upon object before you
7. Remove literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition
8. Telling the true story of the world in interior monolog
9. The jewel center of interest is the eye within the eye
10. Write in recollection and amazement for yourself
11. Work from pithy middle eye out, swimming in language sea
12. Struggle to sketch the flow that already exists intact in mind
13. Don't think of words when you stop but to see picture better
14. No fear or shame in the dignity of your experience, language & knowledge
15. Write for the world to read and see your exact pictures of it
16. Composing wild, undisciplined, pure, coming in from under, crazier the better
17. You're a Genius all the time
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