...a writer without authority? Impossible. as Kenneth Burke says, creation implies authority in the sense of originator....
We should be told: Write fast, write close to the bone, write for ten hours straight until you__e not thinking in words anymore, but in colors, in smells, in waves of memory. Right what you care about. Don__ write one more word you don__ care about. Don__ waste any more of your life on what does not matter to you. Write only what matters to you__hose scenes, those dialogues. Get messy. Before you get neat, get very, very messy. Write until you are more alive than you have ever been before.
Writing Past Dark: Envy, Fear, Distraction and Other Dilemmas in the Writer's Life
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We should be told: Write fast, write close to the bone, write for ten hours straight until you__e not thinking in words anymore, but in colors, in smells, in waves of memory. Right what you care about. Don__ write one more word you don__ care about. Don__ waste any more of your life on what does not matter to you. Write only what matters to you__hose scenes, those dialogues. Get messy. Before you get neat, get very, very messy. Write until you are more alive than you have ever been before.
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