Invisible Birds

1. Avoid modifiers
2. Reduce everything to the existential horror of the materiality of the body.
3. Use simple language.
4. Stay away from anything remotely gestural
5. The prose surface should never be like glass.
6. All words should be of Anglo-Saxon origin. Latin corrupts. Except in this list.
7. Rack the history of English literature for variations on sentence form and steal them.
8. Do not be interested in the sublime; transcend nothing.
9. Subvert the speaker by using an additional, oppositional speaker that lurks beneath the surface.
10.Expressing nothing expresses everything.