SATURDAY
went to city for 50th anniversary of su mfa program, mucky muck do at hemsley, central park south
convince the swells to support program, nice set, many student cohorts, nice seeing folk hadnt seen
cheryl strayed was there, at dinner after she regaled us w/tales of making it big like she has
talked about how reese (as in witherspoon) called her after reading wild and is making movie
how oprah called her after reading wild and how regular folk she was, 'how much she wanted me to like her"
say she book touring the paperback to 50 countries, 'i didnt even know there wasw 50 countries' she say
mary karr put it together, got up at the podium and made all kind of claims, some serious embellishment - remind me of zora neale, forget truth, its the mythwork that count - i love me some mary karr, she real
chris michel say he read rootsblog regular, that moved me, what can i say, ima appreciation junkie, chris
the one i stole building armies concept from, he joking on fb w/mikel awake (also there) one day and say
i am bulding armies against you - i loved the whole idea of that, my internet efforts as 'building armies'
when i do readings around the world now i think of myself as building armies, sowing believers
speaking of believers i have not been able to put HBOF down to pick up RFTW, hope to do some RFTW
over the thanksgiving, at least a read thru, see what it need, i know i want to better dramatize the prophetic
sequence, the futurescenarios need work, etc etc, i was telling cheryl how its been on the market so
long she say why, i say its different, she say how and i get inarticulate, i say its just different
and im not at all surprised that the industry finds it problematic - my position
all along been that im going to make it so strong it cannot be denied
obviously i have failed at that, ima hit it again
and again and again and again if necessary
aint no big thing, thats what i do - and ima write my holybook too
good lord willing and the creek dont rise
o i just love being a writer, i love the struggle of it, the
sheer goddamn hell of it, good bad win or lose i love it
Your blogs keep a lot of us going, Arthur, and I'm part of your army, without a doubt. I think the most magical changes the world goes through are so subtle you hardly notice -- it's winter, and it's winter, and you wake up one day and it's not winter anymore, and you can't remember if yesterday was winter or not, but you know tomorrow won't be.
Your book will be finished. It will be great. And it will come out and change my life, and the lives of everyone who reads it. And it will make deep magic that way. I'm not sure of much, but I am of that.
Posted by: Chris Michel | November 18, 2012 at 04:52 PM
well chris, i believe ima have to put that up on the wall of inspiration - good looking out
Posted by: arf | December 10, 2012 at 05:24 AM