A few notes about the process of writing.
Resistance
to the creative process.
If
you are writing anything – poetry, plays, novels,
essays, blogs, short stories, scripts, then you know that
resistance kicks your butt. The more you love what you
are doing, the more you are called to do it, the more you
invoke a force that can only be called "resistance,"
which is the world pushing back. There is a physics to
it: inertia, force, resistance, momentum, direction.
Work is love made manifest. And thus, it changes the
world. Resistance is just the action-reaction effect of
the world resisting being changed. More . . .
Cool Tools
- keyboards and other hardware - to help you write.
I have a fantastic keyboard – the
Kinesis
Advantage. It is supremely comfortable. It is available
in the United States. I have three of them: one for me,
one for Camille, and one under the desk as a backup. Each
one costs about $300. The keyboard itself is much more
important than the actual computer I use. I am
continually touching the keyboard, and keyboards can
potentially ruin your hands, injure them to the point
that you will be unable to type. If you are a writer, it
is slightly insane to use a regular keyboard.
More
. . .
Touch Typing
tips.
If
you want to be able to write a lot without injuring your
body and developing a permanently slumped posture, you
need to be able to look out the window, look at a
photograph that inspires you, close your eyes, look
around the room, and then glance at the screen every few
seconds to make sure you are writing in the proper space.
You shouldn't even need to be looking at the screen
constantly as you write.
Brainstorming
and organization of ideas.
If
you have a lot of thoughts streaming through your head
when you are out on walks, in cafes, at parties, or doing
yoga, check out the Moleskines. There is nothing even
close. It is just a little black notebook, but they do it
Italian Style. Just so much better, the cover is better,
the paper is better. This is the Ferrari of little black
notebooks.