{"id":1977,"date":"2014-05-21T13:23:33","date_gmt":"2014-05-21T17:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnestes.org\/?p=1977"},"modified":"2014-05-21T13:23:33","modified_gmt":"2014-05-21T17:23:33","slug":"henry-miller-11-commandments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/?p=1977","title":{"rendered":"Henry Miller: 11 Commandments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/index.php\/2012\/02\/22\/henry-miller-on-writing\/\">Maria Popova<\/a>, from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0811201120\/braipick-20\">Henry Miller on Writing<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>COMMANDMENTS<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Work on one thing at a time until finished.<\/li>\n<li>Start no more new books, add no more new material to \u2018Black Spring.\u2019<\/li>\n<li>Don\u2019t be nervous. Work calmly, joyously, recklessly on whatever is in hand.<\/li>\n<li>Work according to Program and not according to mood. Stop at the appointed time!<\/li>\n<li>When you can\u2019t create you can work.<\/li>\n<li>Cement a little every day, rather than add new fertilizers.<\/li>\n<li>Keep human! See people, go places, drink if you feel like it.<\/li>\n<li>Don\u2019t be a draught-horse! Work with pleasure only.<\/li>\n<li>Discard the Program when you feel like it\u2014but go back to it next day. Concentrate. Narrow down. Exclude.<\/li>\n<li>Forget the books you want to write. Think only of the book you are writing.<\/li>\n<li>Write first and always. Painting, music, friends, cinema, all these come afterwards.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Maria Popova, from Henry Miller on Writing: COMMANDMENTS Work on one thing at a time until finished. Start no more new books, add no more new material to \u2018Black Spring.\u2019 Don\u2019t be nervous. Work calmly, joyously, recklessly on whatever is in hand. Work according to Program and not according to mood. Stop at the appointed time! When you can\u2019t &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}