Heart Sutra of A Writing Life

eric mccarty
2 min readMay 28, 2022
Heart Sutra of A Writing Life — Headless Now — Prose Poem — Moca McCarty Photo

Heart Sutra of writing life:

any pressure is always self directed, that if I ever have a demand for words and only find their absence, than it’s my own issue of complaint, and not one of inspiration. There are infinite things to write of and an endless flow of words. There’s also silence — and it’s essential to the writing process. Really, it’s essential to all of life, silence is the holy underlie of order, the…

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eric mccarty

Writer, prose poetry, meditation teacher and lifetime student