![]() ![]() “But work, without right thinking, is almost useless. Not to work is to cease, tighten up, become nervous and therefore destructive of the creative process. Work done and behind you is a lesson to be studied. But you are in the midst of a moving process. So we should not look down on work nor look down on the forty-five out of fifty-two stories written in our first year as failures. ![]() Work then, hard work, prepares the way for the first stages of relaxation, when one begins to approach what Orwell might call Not Think! As in learning to typewrite, a day comes when the single letters a-s-d-f and j-k-l- give way to a flow of words. ![]() “By work, by quantitative experience, man releases himself from obligation to anything but the task at hand… The writer must let his fingers run out the story of his characters, who, being only human and full of strange dreams and obsessions, are only too glad to run. There’s more to be said about this, so I’ll let Ray Bradbury explain in his own words, excerpted from Zen in the Art of Writing: ![]() And ‘Don’t Think!’ means not second guessing yourself or interrupting the flow of Relaxation. ‘Relaxation’ means getting into the Zone and letting the writing write itself. In this great essay, Ray Bradbury gives us four words of advice that are essential for writing, or any kind of creativity: ![]()
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