Ask the Author: Cleon Carnegie
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Cleon Carnegie
Go back to the source, recall the reason you wanted to write in the first place. I think the block comes when we go off track, but there's always a way back. You're the creator of the world you're building.
Change your scenery, eat something you'd eaten when the idea was born. Exercise, love, give, get fresh air. Get back to feeling that way.
Change your scenery, eat something you'd eaten when the idea was born. Exercise, love, give, get fresh air. Get back to feeling that way.
Cleon Carnegie
The best thing about writing is that you don't think in vain. It puts you at one with the forces of nature which creates
Cleon Carnegie
Seek the path that soothes you, that path that brings you peace. Listen to those hungry mosquitoes of thoughts that seek to torment you. Catch a few, all if you can. Suck them in the form of writing.
You have something to say, and the world wants to hear it. Someone is waiting for your story, it's the only one that can save him/her. Get on with it through thick and thin.
You have something to say, and the world wants to hear it. Someone is waiting for your story, it's the only one that can save him/her. Get on with it through thick and thin.
Cleon Carnegie
That idea came from the raw core of life, its unwavering laws--it came from the wind, the rain, the fire, the earth. These are things that know no name. They know only life, only living, only laws.
Cleon Carnegie
I got tired of saying a bunch of things that I soon forgot. We have to somehow record these wild, spontaneous things that buzz around our heads like hungry mosquitoes--ideas. We have to suck them too in the same way they suck us.
We have to show the world that we didn't just get sucked, but that we did some sucking too.
We have to show the world that we didn't just get sucked, but that we did some sucking too.
Cleon Carnegie
I'm currently working on a philosophical piece, fashioned as a prophet answering questions about life and existence. It's coming soon, and oh I love it so...
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