Wildly Free

I write.

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“
1. If you write every day, you get better at writing every day.
6. Writers read. Writers read a lot. Writers read all the time.
9. Always bring your notebook. Always bring a spare pen.
10. Go for walks. Dance. Pull weeds. Do the dishes. Write about it.
11. Don’t settle on just one style. Try something new!
12. Learn to tell both sides of the story
12 ½. Stop looking at this poster. Write something!
”

- Boxcar Highway (via alanajoy)

Jack Kerouac's Essentials of Spontaneous Prose →

List of Essentials

  • Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy
  • Submissive to everything, open, listening
  • Be in love with yr life
  • Something that you feel will find its own form
  • Write what you want bottomless from bottom of mind
  • The unspeakable visions of the individual
  • No time for poetry but exactly what is
  • In tranced fixation dreaming upon object before you
  • Remove literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition
  • Telling the true story of the world in interior monolog
  • The jewel center of interest is the eye within the eye

    [cont’d…]

  • Write in recollection and amazement for yourself
  • Work from pithy middle eye out, swimming in language sea
  • Accept loss forever
  • 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
  • Composing wild, undisciplined, pure, coming in from under, crazier the better
  • You’re a Genius all the time
Writing progress

3 hours ago: Struggling to make myself write. I just need to get on with it really. Being tired doesn’t help, but so what? Do it Kx, do it now!

I got some writing done, not nearly as much as I hoped, but a fairly decent amount.

I did stuff for $project that I really wanted to get done, so squee!

Plus, validated Web Stuff, so that’s good. (I’m using some amazing free themes by other people that didn’t have valid markup; now they do).

Oh, and made Kx tumbles less pink :O

Writing, mood and inspiration

When it comes to poetry, I’m much more prolific when I’m feeling really down.

I’m pretty expressive when I’m feeling really happy too - usually lots of rambling about how love and stuff are amazing in a very free, organic and repetitive way.

This Futurama quotation holds significance for me; I might get a poem out of it after I’ve had some sleep… “I mean, being a robot’s great but we don’t have emotions and sometimes that makes me very sad.” Bender

I’m currently listening to the suicide tag on last.fm.

Mock The Week YouTube clips will help… Oh, I forgot, the patriarchy exists there too. Hm. Okay, time for some feminist comedy. (Although, grr at the idea that one’s cunt would be safer at home than out jogging late at night is perpetuating that myth about strangers in bushes… Oh no, even the supposedly feminist comedy is full of rape jokes. AAGH!)

Okay, I give up.

I hope I get some respite from institutional sexism in my flippin’ dreams.

I’m using NaNoWriMo to get back into journalling. If you’re an anarchist / feminist / queer / radical / vegan wrimo, feel free to add me. :)

I’m using NaNoWriMo to get back into journalling.

If you’re an anarchist / feminist / queer / radical / vegan wrimo, feel free to add me. :)

Writing habits

I’ve not written here for a while, but…

I’m writing lots in my journal.
I’m experimenting with different journalling styles, with a view to some collaborative writing stuff too.
I’m playing with some ideas for novels.
I started re-writing the Rent screenplay in my head.
I created a zine called Brazen (I’m not sure if it’s finished yet) last month.
I’m writing poetry for another zine or three I’m making.
I’m keeping an eye out for writing jobs.
I’ve written some sort of penpal correspondence.
I have a writing buddy.

Collaborative feminist zine-making - Zines! a crafty feminists event. Interested? Keep an eye on #zines inspirewithhope at twitter. Get involved! Original blurb: Come prepared to write/ draw/ etc!* Bring ideas and/or stuff you’ve already created, if you’d like. Collaborative feminist zine! Whee! All feminists welcome. Let’s be supportive of each other, act in good faith, listen to each other and challenge shitty behaviour, including when we “didn’t mean it that way”. Let’s work together and start creating something that excites us all. Let’s see what happens. :) If you’re able/willing to host this event, please text/email me. Otherwise I will arrange a suitable venue for our zine-making. More information to follow… *Anything you can do on paper that can then be reproduced with a photocopier! :)

Collaborative feminist zine-making - Zines! a crafty feminists event.

Interested? Keep an eye on #zines inspirewithhope at twitter.

Get involved!

Original blurb:

Come prepared to write/ draw/ etc!* Bring ideas and/or stuff you’ve already created, if you’d like.

Collaborative feminist zine! Whee! All feminists welcome.

Let’s be supportive of each other, act in good faith, listen to each other and challenge shitty behaviour, including when we “didn’t mean it that way”.
Let’s work together and start creating something that excites us all.
Let’s see what happens. :)

If you’re able/willing to host this event, please text/email me. Otherwise I will arrange a suitable venue for our zine-making.

More information to follow…

*Anything you can do on paper that can then be reproduced with a photocopier! :)

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