OK, now write for ten minutes, keep the hand moving, tell me what you carry.
Of course, we are drawn to teachers who unconsciously mirror our own psychology. None of us are clean. We all make mistakes. It's the repetition of those mistakes and the refusal to look at them that...
Writing practice brings us back to the uniqueness of our own minds and an acceptance of it. We all have wild dreams, fantasies, and ordinary thoughts. Let us to feel the texture of them and not be afr...
We must become writers who accept things as they are, come to love the details, and step forward with a yes on our lips so there can be no more noes in the world, noes that invalidate life and stop th...
Play around. Dive into absurdity and write. Take chances. You will succeed if you are fearless of failure.
Public schools go on year after year. They don't die because they are not alive.
SIT DOWN WITH THE plan to write something you have always wanted to write but have never managed to get around to. This time, though, you are not timing yourself. You are sitting down with the determi...
WRITE EVERYTHING YOU know about dying. Just go. Don’t think, What does she mean by that? Dive in. We die in all kinds of ways. Who died? When did they die? how? why?
We walk through so many myths of each other and ourselves; we are so thankful when someone sees us for who we are and accepts us.
TAKE A SUBJECT, a situation, a story that is hard for you to talk about, and write about it. Write slowly, evenly, in a measured way. Don’t skip over any part of it. Stay in there. It might take you s...
THE BASIC UNIT of writing practice is the timed exercise.
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
That yes you commit to as reader and writer is the current that hums through all the work. Of course, you might say yes and then come up against an iceberg. No, you suddenly say definitively. And ther...
Writing is the act of discovery.
The responsibility of literatuure is to make people awake, present, alive. If the writer wanders, then the reader, too, will wander.
There is freedom in being a writer and writing. It is fulfilling your function. I used to think freedom meant doing whatever you want. It means knowing who you are, what you are supposed to be doing o...
This all happened fifteen years ago. A friend once told me: Trust in love and it will take you where you need to go. I want to add, Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you wher...
The back of every word we write is no word. Only because no word exists is there space enough to write some word. So when we write about our feelings and perceptions, it is writing practice when we al...
Tibetan Buddhists say that a person should never get rid of their negative energy, that negative energy transformed is the energy of enlightenment, and that the only difference between neurosis and wi...
To encounter a fine book
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