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Post by Admin on Dec 10, 2016 13:23:36 GMT
Right now, that is the working title for a non-fiction memoir type book. I think I can use that title as a way to tie all the articles into one story. That's the plan anyway. My mind has been playing with it ever since you mentioned newspaper articles. I can't risk getting sidetracked from the other goals but I already use Sunday to update websites and do social media and business related stuff. If I block out an hour on Sunday's I can start to figure out how to pull 30+ articles and a handful of poems into a cohesive package. Most of the writing is already done. It will need to be organized and updated so its fresh and new but its there. It might give me another book for 2017.
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Post by bill on Dec 10, 2016 14:38:00 GMT
I love your title! I think that's a great idea. You have nothing to lose by putting another book out there.
I've recently put all my poems together. Many of them I had to type into the computer because they were hand written. I still need to organize, proofread, format, etc. I'm going to publish them eventually but I won't advertise them. I mainly want them available so Sydney and Blake will have access to them some day. If anyone else wants to read them that's fine, but that's not why I'm doing them.
Glad you gained access to the internet!
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Post by Admin on Dec 10, 2016 15:05:50 GMT
My browser was telling me it was an unsafe site because it's public with no password. Last night I was so tired I couldn't figure out how to get it open even when my browser and security was telling me not to. I'm being careful what I open but I've mostly got Hollys boards, the Rothwriters, and facebook. I don't care who sees that. Facebook is my public persona anyway. The more people who see it the better.
Jody put out a book of poems and mostly for the same reason you are. She wanted them compiled into one place where they could all be found by whoever felt a need for them. I ordered a copy and enjoyed it very much because a lot of her poetry is about family and family incidents that impacted her life.
My poems started coming when I painted my first "whimsey". The Bear and the Butterfly painting that I titled The Awakening. That painting was different. I did what Joshua does. Put a base coat on the paper and then waited for the paint to tell me what it was going to be. It was an inner vision coming outward. It opened something that had been closed in my own mind. A new room that held pure emotion. Poetry, to me, is pure emotion. It condenses big feelings into the fewest amount of words. Most of my poetry is a welling up of emotion that I cannot express. It has been hiding and sometimes festering until, much as an abscess would burst open, all this 'stuff' comes spilling out. I am more a conduit than anything else. I don't consciously know what is coming, I just know it has to emerge.
I won't have time to work on this until I get back from Texas. So a few weeks for it to mull around in my mind and see what takes root and grows.
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Post by bill on Dec 10, 2016 20:07:50 GMT
I agree. One of the reasons I haven't written much poetry is I have a hard time connecting with my emotions.
So are you going back to Illinois after the weekend or to Emporia? I would love to visit again. I was in KC last weekend but Sydney is studying for finals and Blake is working this weekend.
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Post by Admin on Dec 11, 2016 3:19:08 GMT
I have business at home that I can't put off so I will go home on Monday. That will give me the rest of the week to get the business taken care of before I head for Texas. I think the next trip I have will be when I take Josh to Colorado Spring the last part of April.
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