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>Situate yourself in a place that is as propitious as possible to the concentration of the spirit
>Enter the most passive, or receptive state, of which we are capable
>To dispense with the genius, talent, and the genius and talent of others
>Repeatedly say that literature is one of the saddest paths that lead everywhere
>Write quickly, without a preconceived topic, write fast enough not to be able to brake and not to be tempted to read what is written
>Let the first sentence come to mind and so succinctly
>Keep writing. Trust in the inexhaustible nature of the murmur
>If silence threatens, due to a lack, we need to call "lack of inattention", here, interrupt
>Following the word put any letter and thus return to the state of arbitrariness.

>> No.21274408

>>21274400
Stfu, retard. I hate when retards just discover a writer and decide to shit up this board with their spam

>> No.21274409

>>21274400
this just sounds like automatic writing. Yeats did it as well.

>> No.21274410

>>21274400
writer'sblockbros, does this method actually work?

>> No.21274412

>>21274408
Civilian jannies are no better

>> No.21274414

>>21274400
This guy gets mentioned in basically every art article.
Art criticism, painting, film, avant garde, experimental, surrealism, this was is everywhere

>> No.21274417

>>21274400
>4chan, le book

>> No.21274420

>>21274400
That's automatic writing, not shitposting.

>> No.21274426

the surrealists shatpost about raping little girls tho

>> No.21274427

>>21274420
No, but I meant schizo/shitposting. Not a simple shitpost.

>> No.21274431

>>21274427
Define schizoposting

>> No.21274439

>>21274431
>>21274400
Haven't you ever read things here that make sense, but not really? As if the OP just "vomited" that post?

>> No.21274453

>>21274400
Stfu, retard. I hate when retards just discover a writer and decide to shit up this board with their spam

>> No.21274457
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21274457

Le OG Chud?

>> No.21274470

>>21274400
Stfu, retard. I hate when retards just discover a writer and decide to shit up this board with their spam

>> No.21274576

>>21274457
I see a lawyer, a doctor, or an austronaut.

>> No.21274625

>>21274457
no

>> No.21274775

>>21274408
Maybe so, but I’d rather see a Breton – or a Trakl! – thread, however stupid, than the same boring authors/topics being posted over and over

>> No.21274779

>>21274775
>just discovered trakl
Say it ain’t so!

>> No.21274783
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21274783

> – or a Trakl! –

>> No.21275710

>>21274400
JACOBIN TROLLING WITH SURREALISM CHARACTERISTIC

>> No.21276175

>>21274414
>This guy gets mentioned in basically every art article.
Are you being honest?

>> No.21276257

>>21274439
And I'm thinking that this thing is definitely cathartic and could probably turn into some kind of therapy. Does anyone else who ever done this also felt the same?

>> No.21276356

>>21274783
>Trakl is s*ylent now
log off american

>> No.21276376

I've been doing this for 44 days, every day, for a minimum of two hours. I've read a few books on it. Free writing, automatic writing, pre-writing, writing practice, these are all terms you will see used.

The more I have done it the more I have changed my goal to the search for a feeling. When I hit that flowing feeling, everything is good. It involves a lot of trust, courage, a sense of safety and security, and a feeling of curiosity and intrigue about every word and image that comes to mind. You also have to simply keep typing. The one concrete rule is to keep typing, if even you just type the same word over and over. Eventually you will type a second word. But it is that feeling of curiosity, that flow state, that you really want to get familiar with. I've done a lot of reading on mysticism and the 'moment' and on imagination as a living realm and these have all influenced me too. When I lock into the right feeling, there is nothing but the current word, and from that one present word it is like . . . everything just flows in.

I am still experimenting, but it has been wonderful, and it has generated some interesting things, very interesting. I think a writer really must go to a place inside them that is terrifying, where madness is only a breath away, and a man can forget everything in exchange for finding the place where all things emerge. It's a grand act of submission.

>> No.21276529

>>21274779
I did that specially for you!

>> No.21276536

>>21274408
>I hate when people use this board for what it's supposed to be used for
I, too, am hopelessly retarded

>> No.21276540

>>21276356
No, simply the pseud who just discovered Trakl and namedropped him in the most “s*ylent” way possible in a thread about Breton, dyel. I have read Trakl well before you started reading books, bud.

>> No.21276544

>>21276536
>almost nearly illiterate
>incapable of comprehending OP’s retarded spam
>words on a screen flow your eyes without any thought or understanding
>feels the need to respond
Go back to the Sci-Fi and Fantasy containment general.

>> No.21276550

>>21276544
Ah yes, to not shit up the Evola-Kaczynski-McCarthy-Bible-Dostoevsky board any further

>> No.21276757

>>21276376
Based. Could you share some books on this topic?

>> No.21276804

>>21276757
>the courage to create - rollo may (nature of insight, also seen with Poincare. Importance of feeling in knowing)
>journey to ixtlan - carlos castaneda (description of warrior state, how to navigate present moment, keeping death at your shoulder. Intent and feeling as magical modes of existence and key to life)
>reality - peter kingsley (metis, deepening understanding of warrior state, being gifted world as perception, meaning of life as observation, loosening of all shackles of choice and bounded to fate)
>wild mind - natalie goldberg (some free writing advice, lots of padding, take what you like. I use the first three rules she presented)
>atomic habits (identity>beliefs>systems. Making unique spaces for writing. Preparing my writing space the night before and beginning immediately).
>lost art of the imagination - gary lachmann (overview of history of imagination as a distinct realm of living beings)

For just an overview on free writing Wild Mind might do. It describes the practice and gives some advice and so on. It is one of those memoir-type writing books though, so very feminine, and some might not have the patience for it, though it does have helpful advice. The rest are books that helped me come to understand more the feeling of 'now', and of letting go of who I am.

I also enjoyed Writing Begins with the Breath by Laraine Herring, which is a similar genre of writing advice mixed with memoir and spirituality.

>> No.21276852

>>21276376
Very nice anon. I unironically had some best moments of my life during these stream of consciousness writing sessions. It is interesting how is flow affected by outside stimuli. During my NEET periods I was writing the same thoughts over and over for days and weeks, but when I went outside and met some people or just went to nature, it altered my flow and brought new ideas to my mind. I sometimes like to combine my stream of consciousness with some outside source of stimuli, such as music. It makes every flow feel unique.

>> No.21276857

>>21274457
he was a literal communist, retard.

>> No.21276871

>>21276852
When I write I do play a binaural drone in the background. I just like that droning noise. I put ambient music on too at times. I try to write as close to waking as possible too. It's different in the afternoon, for me.

I also close my eyes and write a lot. I close my eyes and wait, being aware, responsive. I might see a hand and then I watch the hand, what it does, what it's connected to etc. or I hear a voice and I tune to it and listen.

I find that writing with my eyes closed is very different to writing when I watch the screen. Very different. With eyes closed I lose the sense of all things and go in any direction. When I watch the screen and see the cursor moving along, and try to keep my focus on that cursor, things are more . . . causal. Events flow to one another better. Eyes closed is more chaotic.

I also just close my eyes and enter into imagination without typing too. Like active imagination.

Another book I liked was Inner States by Colin Wilson which is about living with imagination, being more free and in tune with the depths of yourself. The takeaway there is to be very relaxed but focused at the same time which sounds paradoxical, but it is key to achieve, I think, in life and writing.