An edited list of Kerouac's essentials 'cause the full list is just too much to consider on one piece of paper.

"Life must be rich and full of loving–it’s no good otherwise, no good at all, for anyone."

Belief & Technique
For Modern Prose
by Jack Kerouac

List of Essentials

Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy
Submissive to everything, open, listening

Be in love with yr life
Something that you feel will find its own form

The unspeakable visions of the individual

Telling the true story of the world in interior monolog

Write in recollection and amazement for yourself

Accept loss forever
Believe in the holy contour of life
Struggle to sketch the flow that already exists intact in mind
Dont think of words when you stop but to see picture better

No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge see
yr exact pictures of it

In praise of Character in the Bleak inhuman Loneliness
Composing wild, undisciplined, pure, coming in from under, crazier the better
You're a Genius all the time
Writer-Director of Earthly movies Sponsored & Angeled in Heaven