Advice

12/24/2017

“Advice? I don’t have advice. Stop aspiring and

start writing. If you’re writing, you’re a writer. Write like you’re

a goddamn death row inmate and the governor is out of the country and

there’s no chance for a pardon. Write like you’re clinging to the edge of a cliff,

white knuckles, on your last breath, and you’ve got just one last thing to say,

like you’re a bird flying over us and you can see everything, and please,

for God’s sake, tell us something that will save us from ourselves.

Take a deep breath and tell us your deepest, darkest secret,

so we can wipe our brow and know that we’re not

alone. Write like you have a message from

the king. Or don’t. Who knows, maybe

you’re one of the lucky ones

who doesn’t have to.”

– Alan W. Watts

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Photo by Daniel Jensen

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