
‘Write Drunk
Edit Sober.”
Attributed to Hemingway this line is a little gem in itself .
Here is my take…
As a writer give in
To flights of fancy
Give in to the dance
Of Imagination.
Be drunk with joy
Of writing with all of you.
Enjoy the immersion
Embody your uniqueness
And flow with the words .
Sense the delights in disarray
Just write on…
As you edit
Stay sober
Be attentive
Be mindful
And aware.
And patient
With yourself.
Most of all
Be here in the now.
Savvy
Ps :I write for joy… so have always enjoyed writing in a flow though never drunk , I confess I have enjoyed the waltz with words as it flows often on. And yet I also know I have a lots to learn about editing. It’s still a work in progress.
What are your thoughts on this ?
Savvy
September 19, 2024 at 10:14 am
Write with total abandon (drunk or not), edit in the sober light of day.
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September 19, 2024 at 9:35 pm
Yes, the abandon that allows you to enter and be in the state of Flow to create with all of you!
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September 19, 2024 at 12:53 pm
I like that quote!
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September 19, 2024 at 9:34 pm
Yes indeed!
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September 19, 2024 at 1:47 pm
SMiLes Dear Savvy Although i’ve Never
Literally Written Free Poetry While Drinking
Alcohol Either Yes i Do Believe Hemingway’s
Quote Does Apply in the Way There is Magic
in So-called Chaos When We Let The Reason
of Our Mechanical Cognition Go Reaching Yes
Deep Down in Flow Ascending And Transcending
That Analytical Part of Mind Opening up The Total
Of Our Subconscious Minds as the Ocean Surfaces
into the Art We Do Now
Ah Yes then Returning
to the More Analytical
Mind Sprucing Up the
Order of Our Cosmos
Again Indeed “Priests
Of Our Own Cosmos” ThiS WaY
As the ‘Oracle Within Joints the Architect’
to Use Another Metaphor From ‘The Matrix’
Indeed One Must Free Their Souls for Original Creativity
It’s Not What May Be Birthed and Controlled From the StArt
Yes it is a “Faith Without Seeing or Hearing” For Real as Intuition
Awakens
Our Deeper
Souls With SMiLes…
i Often Use a FLoWinG
Meditation of Dance
With Meditative
MuSiC to
Enter This Realm
Although it Also comes
Naturally With a Dance
of Fingers in Flow on a Keyboard
As i Literally Do Feel ‘The MuSiC of
The NiGHT’ as mY SoUL Rises to Sing Free
With
SMiLes..:)
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September 19, 2024 at 9:32 pm
Yes I get you my friend.
This is to me is the ‘Flow state.’.. where you are enough to acknowledge, allow, create give in and share from you … the sublime truth of you.
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September 19, 2024 at 9:43 pm
Ah Yes Dear Savvy
THE Expansive
Integrating Flow
State Enhances All
Human Potentials
In
Focus
And Attention
Span Of Fully
Regulating Emotions
Integrating Senses All
Lit
Up
On Task
A Lifelong
Practice of
Human Excellence
🙌☺️🙏
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