Kerouac’s writing advice, titled Belief and Technique for Modern Prose, is more of an offbeat reflection on beat life than an instructive list that shows how to write like Kerouac. But I think that makes it more interesting, and more useful. He reportedly stuck the list on the wall of Allen Ginsberg’s North Beach hotel…
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What you must know before you start writing.
Nothing. You don’t need to know anything more than you already know. Start writing. You don’t need to overthink your ideas. You don’t even need to know your ideas. If you want to, go ahead, but you don’t need to. You can meet your ideas as your letters meet the page. Decide whether it’s a…