Henry Miller (the writer) is widely regarded for his avant garde approach to writing, particularly about s3x. Many people on the internet share his 11 commandments of writing. But Miller had much, much more to say about writing, as Thomas M. Moore shows in his Henry Miller on Writing published by New Directions Books.
I tweeted my reading notes of the book, which are now stored in this blog post for posterity.
BUT I want to call attention to Miller’s detailed writing plans. He had a Daily Program, a Major Program, a Minor Program and an Agenda. And his commandments were broader, overarching ideas of what he should do and how should he approach his writing. pic.twitter.com/Z21pxlArVr
— Dr Raul Pacheco-Vega (@raulpacheco) August 29, 2019
I have previously emphasized the importance of repertoires (and full credit to @ThomsonPat for her insistence on this topic as well). It amazes me that this notion didn’t come to me before: I play piano, and I am a former professional dancer. We have repertoires too!
— Dr Raul Pacheco-Vega (@raulpacheco) August 29, 2019
Repertoires are important. You can’t dance or sing or play all things in the book. I am NOT prepared to dance everything. I can dance salsa very, very competitively, merengue so-and-so, tango I can do one or two pieces well, and the rest, well, not in my realm. Same with piano. I have my repertoire (a couple things from Manuel M. Ponce, Beethoven, Chopin). Methodologically, I have a repertoire of techniques too (spatial, qualitative, quantitative, social network analysis). And organizationally, we should also have a repertoire of programs.
Some days/mornings/evenings you work on assembling data and analyzing, other days you nap.
BTW the book can be purchased here https://t.co/OfoAso6en7 (full disclosure, I paid for this and I pay for all my books out of my own hard earned money). Many extracts Thomas H. Moore did were really useful, to be honest, though these memoires have grown on me. </end threaD>
— Dr Raul Pacheco-Vega (@raulpacheco) August 29, 2019
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