Writing / Storytelling ✍️
Your writing prunes ideas in my mind. My writing prunes ideas in your mind.
We visit each other’s psychic gardens—we get nourished, healed, awakened, and mutually directed at growth.
We visit each other’s psychic gardens—we get nourished, healed, awakened, and mutually directed at growth.
Rūta Žemčugovaitė • From Garden to Wild Herbal Meadow
“The first draft of anything is shit”
Ernest Hemingway
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you’re not writing by yourself. There is a multiplicity of beings who are co-authoring your work.
Whatever you are writing — however academic or poetic, practical or abstract — let in otherness into your creative process.
By opening our writing habits towards newness and unpredictability, we can find that there’s so much more written at the end. Ri... See more
Whatever you are writing — however academic or poetic, practical or abstract — let in otherness into your creative process.
By opening our writing habits towards newness and unpredictability, we can find that there’s so much more written at the end. Ri... See more
Rūta Žemčugovaitė • From Garden to Wild Herbal Meadow
“It’s simple. I just remove everything that is not David.”
—Michelangelo
Writing practices
Light a candle & incense 🕯️
Meditate, feel what’s alive 🧘
Put on deep music 🌀
Walk when feeling stuck🚶
Good writing will reflect in your nervous system. While reading, you will be able to focus, and ultimately, calm down. Some parts of you will be soothed, some—activated. And that particular sensation of soothing will come from reading some kind of truth .
Rūta Žemčugovaitė • Writing Through Your Body
“All writing is useless that does not contain a stimulus to activity”?
Quora • What did Nietzsche mean when he said, “All writing is useless that ...
—Nietzsche
Questions to work with when inviting the sacred into your writing practice:
- Prepare your space. Clear the space physically, mentally, and energetically. Is there room for new ideas to come to you, when the area around you is occupied? Bring in objects that will support your practice. I like to light a candle, burn Tibetan incense, put on music that
Rūta Žemčugovaitė • Writing as Architecting the Space for the Sacred in Other's Mind
Run fast, stand still. This, the lesson from lizards. For all writers.