FRIDAY
okay, ive figured out that the reason texacos narrative riffs sound so much like my own is because my own sound so much like his,
i realize now how much my stylee has been influenced by texaco - talk about stealing
i aspire to his narrative poetry, i aspire to his density but not his pacing,
i like quick, i like tight, i like lightspeed
considered taking my time and reading it right
decided against it, not at this stage in the game, cant take the chance of being pulled off my game
just keep in mind that the bar has been raised,
i got to elevate my game, got to go deep, like the way he engaged storytelling and literature and so many
other threads, i got to elevate my game, i got to take my novel deeper, work threads like my obsession
with work that really means something, that affects the world, shapes and delites generations
just dont get competitive w/other writers, thats a trap, just sing your song boy, best you can
im out, check out dnc video about repub game on the financial bill
dems spotlighting repub talking points attempting to flip the script
swear they defending the people from wall street like their players told them to
defending wall street will be an untenable situation, dems got the spotlight on
im just doing my part to help it go viral
all my love:
WEDNESDAY
so im reading texaco for my literary hoodoo class, trying to skim thru it but keep getting bogged down in the
narrative power, its densely lyrical and i want to savor every sentence, every riff but i just dont have the time, will have to reread it when class
is done, for right now i got to forcemarch thru it but this is the work
i want to be when i grow up, its does so much im trying to do better
got this narrative based narrative instead of scenic, does his own little magical realism thing instead of being derivative
of marquez, rusdhie et al, always nice to see a unique brand of magical realism, this book stands test of repeated readings
for right now forcemarch thru rick, read it when the semester is thru
so i can properly steal
thats the real problem here, if there is any book i envy w/all my literary heart and soul its texaco
this one i have to be vigilant not to get sucked up in narrative envy
this book humbles me like no other
i usually schedule it last but its such an exhaustive read that its not a good choice for that late in the semester
folk just dont have that epic read quality in them at this point, got cattlekilling scheduled for last work
its a challenging read but relatively easy once you have the codes, i might need to discuss the codes
of works before i ask them to read it, that would have been useful for texaco
i think my next forms course will be the way of the novel, i will assign works i want to read
like salvadors, and once again let it be unabashedly about the novel, including writing them
i love the novel, i love the longform and it love me
i have given my life to the novel and its been a good life, if you got to worship something
why not the novel
rdoc
TUESDAY
i been in a t bone walker state of mind, guess i been working w/those blues
aint many things texas done right but they did give us t bone walker
one commenter said, that there is the gospel, son
i was online contending w/some south shall rise again folk back in memphis
and came up with a move on them that put them in a existential double trick
called them unamerican, said the civil war was treason
and like any enemy of america likely to do, you got your little
butts kicked, get over it
said the tea party folk just as bad, trying to defund and weaken
america, whats the difference between your goals and bin ladens
and you call yourself patriots
these are perilous times for america, enemies on
every hand, enemies within, enemies without
you need to be serious, not silly
you need to wake up and smell the red, white and blue
rdoc
MONDAY
im a little depressed, rickydoc got the blues
slogging thru this deglitch draft
has wore me down
i knew this was coming, thats why i gave myself 4 months but still
im just tired, life is such a struggle and im tired
i know, somefolk living horrible lives - i been blessed
but that dont mean i aint tired
that done mean im not weary
i know, buck up soldier, i know
rdoc
SUNDAY
hello world, it is a chastised rootdoctor before you today, i been telling everybody this novel is done and its so unthrough
im doing now what i would call the deglitching draft, you write a novel draft and its full of false starts, repeated riffs w/awkward tonals, passages that dont actually do what you thought they were doing, deadspace, etc - glitches
so this the deglitch draft, had speculated to give it a couple of days
not only has it bogged me down, its discouraging - process rick
keep reminding yourself its all process - quit selling wolf tickets
quit telling folk im thru, quit strutting like i sometimes do
sometime i get to macking and before you know it im running
my wouldbe prophet of the hoodoo way mode full tilt
and i really do believe in the low profile
hiding behind the facade of fiction
but when i let my real self come to the party in these posts
which is part of the power, what make me me, well there you are
telling folk my secrets, showing
my secret self, my hoodoo lord of
the delta indeed
got to the point now if i dont tell folk what i really think, show
the real me, then whats the literary point of blogging
my words are important to me, they must have power
they must have agency
i like to think i speak to the generations
i would they think well of me
all my love
rdoc
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