Kerouac's Belief and Technique for Modern Prose List of Essentials

 

1. Scribbled secret notebooks and wild typewritten pages for yr own joy
2. Submissive to everything, open, listening
3. Try never get drunk outside yr own house
4. Be in love with yr life
5. Something that you feel will find its own form
6. Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind
7. Blow as deep as you want to blow
8. Write what you want bottomless from bottom of the mind
9. The unspeakable visions of the individual
10. No time for poetry but exactly what it is
11. Visionary tics shivering in the chest
12. Entranced fixation dreaming upon object before you
13. Remove literary, grammatical, and syntactical inhibition
14. Like Proust be an old teahead of time
15. Telling the true story of the world in interior monologue
16. The jewel center of interest is the eye within the eye
17. Write in recollection and amazement for yrself
18. Work from pithy middle eye out, swimming in language sea
19. Accept loss forever
20. Believe in the holy contour of life
21. Struggle to sketch the flow that already exists intact in yr mind
22. Don't think of words when you stop but to see the picture better
23. Keep track of everyday emblazoned in yr morning
24. No fear of shame in the dignity of yr experience, language, and knowledge
25. Write for the world to read and see yr exact pictures of it
26. Bookmovie is the movie in words, the visual American form
27. In praise of character in the bleak inhuman loneliness
28. Composing wild, undisciplined, pure, coming in from under, crazier the better
29. You're a genius all the time
30. Writer-director of earhtly movies sponsored and angeled in Heaven