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“The world always seems brighter when you’ve just made something that wasn’t there before.”
10 Steps to Becoming a Better Writer
- Write.
- Write more.
- Write even more.
- Write even more than that.
- Write when you don’t want to.
- Write when you do.
- Write when you have something to say.
- Write when you don’t.
- Write every day.
- Keep writing.
by Brian Clark
You're passionate and that makes you awesome. (bonus tracks)
Pep Talk Extended Version: Unless someone is in your exact same line of work, it’s tough for them to fully the grasp the intricacies of your job. But that doesn’t keep them from shooting off at the mouth at every friggin’ reunion or reception, now does it? “I bet you rake in crazy dough this time of year.” What? Get out of my wallet. “So why aren’t you famous yet?” Are you drunk? Is this how you talk to strangers? “What are you planning after graduation?” I don’t know, you’re stressing me out, go away!!! Maybe they want to get you off balance with uncomfortable questions so they feel better about themselves. Maybe they’re just clueless and trying their best to hold their own in a convo with fascinating, hot, worldly you. Either way, they probably won’t even listen to your answer. You don’t do what you do so you can impress acquaintances. You are living hard and working hard because you have passion. That is something personal that deserves your protection. Maybe you’re broke right now. Welcome to the club! The other members include The Rest of the Planet. Good thing inspiration is independent of cash flow. I sincerely hope that today you feel vital and receptive to the positive energy coming from your homemade support system. I wish you inspired progress toward your goals and an easy going attitude in the face of adversity.
Today remind yourself: I’m passionate and that makes me awesome.
“We all make choices about how we live our lives. You can take a paint-by-numbers approach, or you can start with a blank canvas. When you paint by numbers, the end result is guaranteed. You know what it’s going to be, and it might be good, but it will never be a masterpiece. Starting with a blank canvas is the only way to get a masterpiece, but you could also blow up. So, are you going to pick the paint-by-numbers kit or the blank canvas?”
“Researchers have known for years about the harmful effects of negative emotion on thinking and decision making. More recent evidence has shown that positive emotion has the opposite effect—when we are in a good mood, we think better. We consider more possibilities; we’re open to considerations that would otherwise not occur to us; we see subtle connections between pieces of information that we might otherwise miss.”
“It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.”
You're a Genius all the time
Jack Kerouac’s essentials, in his own words:
dailymeh
- 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
- Sonething 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 center 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
- Dont 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
- Writer-Director of Earthly movies Sponsored & Angeled in Heaven
“Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one’s weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.”
