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!!
