{"id":2353,"date":"2004-05-01T00:09:33","date_gmt":"2004-05-01T04:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2004\/05\/01\/beat-advice-for-bloggers\/"},"modified":"2004-05-01T00:09:33","modified_gmt":"2004-05-01T04:09:33","slug":"beat-advice-for-bloggers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/05\/01\/beat-advice-for-bloggers\/","title":{"rendered":"Beat Advice for Bloggers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a3310'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Begin not from preconceived idea of what to say about image but from jewel center of image of subject of image at <i>moment<\/i> of writing, and write outwards swimming in a sea of language to peripheral release and exhaustion &#8211; Do not afterthink except for poetic or P.S. reasons.  Never afterthink to &#8220;improve&#8221; or defray impressions, as, the best writing is always the most painful personal wrung-out tossed from cradle warm protective mind &#8211; tap from yourself the song of yourself, <i>blow! &#8211; now! &#8211; your<\/i> way is the only way -&#8220;good&#8221; -or &#8220;bad&#8221; always honest. &#8216;(ludicrous&#8217;), spontaneous, &#8216;confessional interesting, because not &#8216;crafted&#8217;. Craft <i>is<\/i> craft.<\/p>\n<p>by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmgworldwide.com\/historic\/kerouac\/index.php\">Jack Kerouac <\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0912516224\/104-8669000-8221542?v=glance\">Good Blonde and Others<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Begin not from preconceived idea of what to say about image but from jewel center of image of subject of image at moment of writing, and write outwards swimming in a sea of language to peripheral release and exhaustion &#8211; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/05\/01\/beat-advice-for-bloggers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}