Really interesting post. And inspiring. I will find one of Peter Elbow's books.
Here is an excerpt of one of my books (on my shelves) on writing and the creative process:
… So if you are to have the full benefit of the richness of the unconscious you must learn to write easily and smoothly when the unconscious is in the ascendant.
The best way to do this is to rise half an hour, or a full hour, earlier than you customarily rise. Just as soon as you can - and without talking, without reading the morning’s paper, without picking up the book you laid aside the night before - begin to write.
…
Becoming a Writer from Dorothea Brande, 1934, page 72
Really interesting post. And inspiring. I will find one of Peter Elbow's books.
Here is an excerpt of one of my books (on my shelves) on writing and the creative process:
… So if you are to have the full benefit of the richness of the unconscious you must learn to write easily and smoothly when the unconscious is in the ascendant.
The best way to do this is to rise half an hour, or a full hour, earlier than you customarily rise. Just as soon as you can - and without talking, without reading the morning’s paper, without picking up the book you laid aside the night before - begin to write.
…
Becoming a Writer from Dorothea Brande, 1934, page 72
"Writing without Teachers" is a classic of his. He's great.
I love that quote. Thank you for sharing it.
It evokes this sense of.. parting the curtain of the day with a sense of grace and feeling