THURSDAY
im tempted to say one more day of sloth and im back in the saddle, but thats just a recipe for
never getting work done - its got to be today, tomorrow never comes
progressive friends keep trying to get me to put obama down, not going to happen, just look
at the alternatives, i mean really, i agree with casca in a huffpost article this morning:
my progressive friends keep trying to get me to put obama down, he didnt do this, he did that -
well, thats not going to happen - i agree w/casca in huffpost this morning:
"Should we undermine the most progressive-minded president in at least a generation and will his failure help or hurt the progressive cause? Will his failure pave the way for a more progressive president or a less progressive president? This is the debate on the left."
WEDNESDAY 75:62 of 115
i been out the loop and off the grid, and have not been productive, bes like that sometime, now
i got to do catchup, everyonce in awhile my discipline goes out on me and i dissipate myself
god help me i am 15 pages behind, ok, if i get back to work and make the weekend i can make
up the 15 then, maybe get a couple pages ahead during the week, focus rick, you can do this
i believe in you
SATURDAY 60:62 OF 115
hello world - as you can see i took the weekend off, as scheduled, supposed to have 65 by monday so i will
be back in the saddle then, all i need is 3, it will be a cold day in hell when i cant get 3 pages - its all good
so, what do you think about colberts ad, i dont know what hes doing exactly with that super pac of his but
it sure is interesting, boy taking farce into uncharted territory, no longer satisfied w/being an observer
he is positioning himself as a player, he keep playing this hard and he will be influential,
just what that influence will be i hesitate to say, boy got a twisty mind - im impressed
FRIDAY: 60:62 OF 115
3 pages, not my best day but im still ahead of the game, should be on pg 60 now according to schedule:
ran up on a major hole thats going to require rewriting a couple of scenes to fix, bes like that sometime
ran across this photo online, every once in awhile i google arthur flowers just to see what comes up, this
photo did, i look kinda impressive dont i, hunted down the provenance, the spitting image bookstore in ithaca,
so, have you seen newts romney/bain video yet, its worth watching - its obvious now why the repubs up in
arms against him, if he doesn't backdown this dialogue will expose and clarify corporate raidship far more
effectively than the OWS movement could dream of, it will expose repub rhetoric for what it is and even more so
because it comes from one of their own - when newt complained about how hard mitt came at him in iowa,
mitt told him to suck it up - now that they have to deal w/their one of their best kamikazes coming at them
its going to be interesting to see how this plays out - it behooves those of us who actually care about
america to stir the pot, do it newt - okay, one more note and im gone,
this nation article, well written i thought, (ima keep an eye on this young brother) says that repub candidates
no longer feel compelled to speak in racial codes, they very comfortable 'calling a spade a spade' he say
mostly because their base is cool with that and there is no electoral penalty for it these days, santorum w/his
blah people, newts foodstamps (thats alright newt i forgive you, just keep tearing down romney & we cool)
they all pushing that blackfolk living off other peoples money bit (reparations anyone?)
according to this article its the election of obama that has totally freaked the repub base out
all the more reason for me to get back to work - 3 page days will not get me to the promised land
well actually it will but not in a suitable timeframe
pray for me
THURSDAY: 55:62 of 115
hello world, im feeling really groovy, my minimum pageage yesterday was 50, i got 59
damn if that aint a groove, had a little time for nuance work, thats refreshing
moving well because its mostly mature manuscript w/rough patches, but im moving into 2nd
half of novel now and its going to be tougher going because threads have to be wove
closure have to be satisfying
so far its been a great woodshed, my plan at this point is to:
- spend jan on a moneydraft (turn in to agent) of rest
- feb on rewrite of mojo rising
- mar: dig into hoodoo book of flowers: this 1 will take some months, lets say mar/apr/may
- june - new lowresidency gig univ of tampa w/jeff parker - 10 days, 4 months online crits
- jun, july, last draft RFTW - (if novel sold before then & editor asking for changes have to rescramble plan)
- aug: annual study of the shortstory, start the hoodoo tales, my book of shorts
by mid aug got to start thinking schoolhouse again, shortstory study will seque into that nicely
and somewhere in there will need a couple of weeks of zonked out postwoodshed rest
what i really want out of this is a clean RFTW and a viable draft of the hoodoo book of flowers: the great
black book of generations, thats my real prority (viable meaning if i die before i get to next draft its ok)
HBOF: my hoodoo holybook, my sacred text, my african american way - not too many writers have pulled off viable holybooks
i pull that off and it will shape many generations - for all practical purposes RFTW is a holybook too, a diff kind of sacred text
and you know something dear regulators, this time off make me realize, ima retire soon as i can
been thinking i would keep teaching until about 70 because essentially i like teaching, it keeps me on
my toes, trying to keep up with my fledglings, trying to stay one step ahead of them
but i think when i hit 66 im out, hopefully i still got a little energy left, some chops
ok, time to get back to work, the thing about the woodshed push is it doesnt matter how good you were yesterday
next morning you got to gird your loins and do it again, the same battle against procrastination and diversion
being ahead of the curve takes out some of the anxiety, if i miss my goal today im still ahead of schedule
but i know that weak days do not get you to the promiseland, weak days increase my anxieties about
about not having lived up to my literary potential before i die
not being after all the legacy i so hope to be
when im being productive thats when i feel like im being who im supposed to be
i cant do anything (well much) about the way the world receives it, all i can do is
conduct myself as if i were in truth the force i aspire to be
write the books i know im supposed to write
i got to go, i got to meet the beast
all my love
rdoc
WEDNESDAY: 50:59 of 115
at 10 points single space (easier to carry around) novel is 115 pages, im doing 5 a day (10 in a doublespace count)
starting today at 45, yesterdays count, todays count is 50 - did yesterdays 5, thats good, the big mo - tried to get a
little cushion but such is life, todays 5 will be hard, some scenes im still too
close to, they dredge up emotional unease sometime pain, it take a certain
kind of will to ignore that & plow thru - some scenes/poems/chapters/stories they hard to rewrite, still
too much emotional baggage tied to them, they the ones you have to step back & settle yourself, grit your
literary teeth & slog thru the pain, a professional thru & thru: writer got to do what a writer got to do &
a work dont cost you aint worth writing - ok i need to quit stalling, im going in - all my love
TUESDAY: 45:45 of 115
been awhile, been in the delta & on the road - low production, back in the cuse now & lookng forward to woodshed routine
according to my schedule 5 pages a day (10 doublespace) will get me to promeland end of january, a draft to send to agent
just finished todays 5, 11:08 am, i think now i will try to get 5 pages ahead of game, a little cushion
ok - some commentary, a break, and back to work:
this my read for 2012: romney, crippled by bain attacks, wins nomination - ronpaul naders him w/3rd party run that sucks away repub voters unhappy w/romney/bain - meanwhile back at the ranch obama gives biden state and takes on hilllary as vice, landslide - or maybe just another fantasy, im good at those too
doing performance for africanstudentassoc univofmemphis april 6, im billed as deltagriot done good -
o im going to enjoy this, the downhome special, full regalia: bells on my ankles, medicine coat & adorned in 101 talismans, rattle in my hand & working the prophetic - & when i step on stage so adorned their initial response will be who is this afroam pretender, then ima show them how we do it in the delta, show them afroams havent lost their chops, ima let myself go, unleash the full monty
this the kind of venue i live for, representing, ima rock the house and elevate they spirits - oldschool
& i believe its the anniversary of mlks death, a day of service
got to keep that in mind, while im rocking the house
im out, takes me days to recover from the road nowdays,
old boy aint the roadwarrior he used to be - dont mean i aint
gon kick it, just take me a minute to recover - all my love
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