Friday, December 19, 2014

A New Day!



So today, I played a bit of saxophone to the dismay of my neighbor, and did the music and poetry thing.  Not so much new poetry, but cataloging, listening, and editing.  It amazes me how much I used to edit my written word, and now it’s like I never do it.  It was crazy because I found a loose page of it written out, but I didn’t find it in any of the notebooks that I’ve been using, (almost scary!) However, I got some inspiration, or maybe it was boredom, and picked up Mona J, and hit some blues rifts.  It was pretty freeing, but my mind stayed pretty connected of the goal I had silently set up yesterday, after my errands and writing. 







The goal was to find a used book-store, go to it and find essays written by Emerson.  Since I quit GBMS I cannot find the copy I had of his essays, which is a huge bummer because it was a free copy, and who doesn’t love free??  I am in the process of writing essays in hopes of—no not in hopes of—in the process of writing essays for the book that I will publish soon, (I’m thinking early 2015)  I have some poetry for it, that will fit pretty good I believe, the only problems are re-finding my writing voice, hence, leading me here to my favorite Doodle with my Poodle blog.






Essays are apparently in very low demand.  I did find an ok used book-store, its called 2BuckBooks (www.twobuckbooks.com), for anyone in the Denver area, it’s on Monaco.  It wasn’t the greatest used bookstore, they had a miniscule philosophy section, but I was able to find a couple of good reads, not the book I was looking for, but some good reads nonetheless.  I was able to find a good thesaurus (yes I know who needs a paperback thesaurus in the digital age L) The Te of Piglet, Four Essays on Life and Letter by Matthew Arnold, and the coupe de grace The Speeches of Malcolm X at Harvard.  So it wasn’t a total waste, plus, I spent less than ten bucks!  However, I was focused on getting the Emerson book, so I broke down and went to Barnes and Noble around the corner of my house.  I was able to find it, and a book of the 2012 edition of The Best American Essays.  I wanted this one because I want to get a feel for what publishers are looking for, heck I may be doing more essays for lit mags and what-not, so it’s best to get a feel for what constitutes as publishable.



The question remains—why?  It has always been a goal of mine to become a writer.  Now, with my current situation of being able to work part-time (while being economically stable), and having time to do it, I’m going to do it.  I’ve been writing like a madman the last couple of days, and with my trusty MacBook JI am a strong believer in myself.  I was able to get published this year, which is wonderful, but I want that to continue.  Therefore, I am reading more, hence the trip to the bookstore, and have set time aside to do nothing but write.  Most writers say, even if what you write sucks, keep doing it.  So I’ve got my journals, which I’ve kept up for about a year, so that’s where a lot of bad writing will be going.  I’m also debating about doing a youtube video.  If you’ve never seen my youtubes, you can check them out, I got a whole page and everything…lol (http://www.youtube.com/user/nabraskapoet)



I believe that’s going to be it for now.  The job may have ended, but new doodles will be new writings, new postings, new music (https://soundcloud.com/poet402) and if all goes truly well, somewhere in 2015 a poetic feature, or band.  I’m still a bit scatter brained, but I’m focused on getting this writing career off the floor…you may resuscitate your poet….Now!!




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