getting my groove on

MONDAY

just got back from delta, with side trip to papa gede nibo bey lakwas yard in south carolina
an elder hoodoo i been internet buddies with, got the urge to meet him in his sanctuary

and have come to conclusion that only way to keep moving forward with this novel is to ignore

the macro, avoid the meta, keep in mind but be ruthlessly focused on moving forward word by word,

sentence by sentence, graph by graph, inch by inch, ruthless micro focus rick, wading thru the

narrative mud, anything else i get lost

FRIDAY

earthquakes, tsunamis, one is tempted to wonder what was god thinking, apparently the earth in search
of its own equilibrium cares little for the lives upon it - when galaxies shrug, planets die, humanity endures

 

WEDNESDAY

im confused, seem the harder i work the more confused i get
im in the delta, did all this thinking about the novel on the road

came to all these conclusions, determined to rewrite fully a 3rd of the novel
convinced myself it was critical, got home and picked it up and i dont want to

im just not feeling it, all these thoughts about what i want to do w/that novel
but what i want to do most is be thru, im so confused, i dont know what to do

SATURDAY

hello world, been awhile since ive posted, been clearning my schoolhouse decks
in prep for springbreak, and feeling toasty about posting these day

feel like blogging may have run its course, and as always that it uses up noveltime
but i keep reminding myself, this for future generations, not this one, just in case i win

this little tussle i got w/destiny, speaking of which that novel got me spinning,
my wheels,  mind is running fulltilt with all sort of narrative/conceptual games

think ima go back to text, enuf thinking, been a week now, no movement, cant accept that, back to text

heading for the delta for springbreak, its like a battery recharge, keep my spirit right

all my love

rdoc

 

 

TUESDAY

working, thats good, but i was thinking about all the writers who can coast their declining years
because theyve already done their big book, the one that cements their literary rep, while old rick

still scrambling one step ahead of the descending ax - guess the gods want to keep me on my toes

MONDAY

saw radiogolf last night, that august wilson was something wasnt he, wasnt it so cool he finished
his 10 play suite before he died, wasnt that just so fine - yours truly didnt work this weekend, pondered

mildred threw me off my game, got so many tropes where do i start, lets say for sake of momentum
the ones most important to me are destiny/fa, conjuration, prophetic sacrifice, storytelling, craft

and one ima call significance, dont ask me what that mean just yet, even as i build a conscious structure
i expect to be the beneficiary of literary grace and unexpected connections, i expect the magic

dont know about going into libya, figure they will eventually feel pressed to do it but i dont know

iraq and aghanistan are cautionary tales, and i cant imagine anything giving
ghadafi streetcred like being bombed by the us, ohwell, we will see

i just hope it doesnt become an extended mission creep

SATURDAY EVENING and i have not done a lick of work

mildreds lesson been on my mind, and i realize i got a zillion

motifs weaving thru this novel but they all creative instinct, they not a true
structure, they just there, shouldnt be a lot of work to fix that

a week rick, maybe 2, to add layers of meaning and narrative
grace, to the text, i cant pass that up, not even gon try

 

 

TALKING ABOUT A GROOVE, JUMP UP IN TRINIDAD - ANY OL TIME

 

 

SATURDAY

when you working regular the wheels are greased, deadstop you always lose a day

now that mildred got me all fired up id like to spend a week/month playing w/metaphorical structures
the deeper i can work that the better, what i really want to play w/is human destiny, thats kinda my thing

speaking of human destiny, wapo article say when it come to race obama believe in trickle down freedom

say its a difference between postracial (bah humbug) & rising boats, say sophisticated black nationalists
have never been exclusively black, say when you 10% of the population you have to play

coalition politics, well, it didnt actually say all that, i said all that, article said obama got his game on

a luta continua

Comments

[nanakwame]

Answers lay with us the Afro-American folks, for we are Americana too, no matter what petrified meme the far-right drags from the bottom. As I said, the man has the mind of our trickster, for even Christianity must change its 2000 year old tune. It is the consciousness Afro-Americans that need to stay: Straight no Chaser. Waiting for your novel big brother, my small spiritual memoir will be out soon.

[arthur flowers]

my brother, are you the bluesman, i was looking for a email, ran up on the bluesman, is that you

[nanakwame]

http://ifagroup.info/ I guess it is me?

You gave me an inspiration to something I knew, and I am the one who knows Iya Katrina in Philly too. She is doing much better. You can e-mail from the site, in the gamer's market I have a reference book I put out a couple of years ago. I not a novelist, but I am working on a piece about Faith, that is what pushed us humans from Africa to the world we see today. I pop in to see how you are doing,and you always have gems. I call it my waterholes as a traveler who now has a new "net". I believe also that Aesthetics as the African knew made us human. You will do it my man.

[arthur flowers]

pleased to have found a new watering hole myself

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