Savvy Raj

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Write drunk. Edit Sober.

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‘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

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Author: Savvy Raj

Dance Educator, Writer, Artist, Designer, Wellness Mentor & Consultant

7 thoughts on “Write drunk. Edit Sober.

  1. etikser's avatar

    Write with total abandon (drunk or not), edit in the sober light of day.

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  2. katiemiafrederick's avatar

    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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