For Everyone Doing NaNoWriMo and All Us Crazy Dumbsaints

Jack Kerouac's Belief & 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 is
    
11. Visionary tics shivering in the chest
    
12. In tranced 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 monolog
    
16. The jewel center of interest is the eye within the eye
    
17. Write in recollection and amazement for yourself
    
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 mind
    
22. Don't think of words when you stop but to see picture better
    
23. Keep track of every day the date emblazoned in yr morning
    
24. No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & 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 Lonliness
    
28. Composing wild, undisciplined, pure, coming in from under, crazier the better
    
29. You're a Genius all the time
    
30. Writer-Director of Earthly movies Sponsored & Angeled in Heaven