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Jack Kerouac's 30 Rules for Writing Like a Beat
Jack Kerouac is one of the most iconic beat generation authors. Today we are going over his 30 tips for writers. Some of these are bizarre, but I try to decode them in the least academic way possible (staying true to Beat ideals). Jack Kerouac along with Gary Synder, Joanne Kyger, Allen Ginsberg and others created a major revolution in writing. By bringing in spontaneity, rebellion, eastern ideals, and travel writing to the American scene, it helped loosen up the rigidity created by Modernism.
Here are the 30 rules!
Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy
Submissive to everything, open, listening
Try never get drunk outside yr own house
Be in love with yr life
Something that you feel will find its own form
Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind
Blow as deep as you want to blow
Write what you want bottomless from bottom of the mind
The unspeakable visions of the individual
No time for poetry but exactly what is
Visionary tics shivering in the chest
In tranced fixation dreaming upon object before you
Remove literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition
Like Proust be an old teahead of time
Telling the true story of the world in interior monolog
The jewel centre of interest is the eye within the eye
Write in recollection and amazement for yourself
Work from pithy middle eye out, swimming in language sea
Accept loss forever
Believe in the holy contour of life
Struggle to sketch the flow that already exists intact in mind
Don’t think of words when you stop but to see picture better
Keep track of every day the date emblazoned in yr morning
No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge
Write for the world to read and see yr exact pictures of it
Bookmovie is the movie in words, the visual American form
In praise of Character in the Bleak inhuman Loneliness
Composing wild, undisciplined, pure, coming in from under, crazier the better
You’re a Genius all the time
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