XMAS WED
amiri doing better, yusef passed on, o life & death & all things between, take
a minute to count your blessings, may the coming year be good to you
may the coming year be good to us all
TUESDAY EVENING
my understanding is that baba amiri is in intensive care, beth israel, newark,
everybody pulling for him, amiri been a strong elder, still showing the way
TUESDAY MORNING
hello world
im all twisted up, im not quite sure what shape im in
lets see if i can break it down: get some order up in here:
halfway thru woodshed and feeling underwater, need to recalibrate woodshed productivity planning
case of the missing haint: the fight to keep my detective novel from going literary has
been abandoned, i just couldnt write straight if my world depended on it
hell its the same thing happened with rest for the weary:, i triy to write conventional and it comes out stylee, i give up, - what i have learned is that 1st person appeals to me
considering consolidating the two of them, HAINT and RFTW, because same themes and
this 1st person would give WEARY a driving thread that many of the responses say it lacks
what with that metanarrative of mine sprawling all over creation
the hoodoo book of flowers: totally buried in this unesco history of africa research
read it, mark it, transpose notes, turn notes into text, drudgework, strictly drudge
phases like this when we seperate the writers from the wannabes
da hoodoo tales, my shorts based on my dreams, had a good one last night, wrote it out this morning thats the key, you get an idea you have to get it on paper immediately, otherwise it will just float away,
but if you start it then eventually you will get around to working on it -
i tell my students all the time, the difference between writers and civilians is that writers write it down
rootwork.com: the other thing on my mind is what to do with rootwork.com
snatched it up in the early days of the internet but everthing ive tried to do w/it
has floundered from lack of time to invest, i think ima try doing online version of hoodoo book of flowers
concern is anything i put on the internet im basically giving it away, the cost of engagement
with the cultural dialogues of my times - but i dont want to give the hoodoo book of flowers
away (thats my retirement fund) so it will be a truncated version, damn near marketing
on that note rick let me leave you w/this nyt article on books and the bottomline
fact that my novel hasnt sold just makes me more desperate to get my work done, to show the world and all the haters - im rickydoc flowers and im one of the greatest novelists ever, (well at least a good one)
in my heart i still believe, i dont care what reality says, im my heart i still believe
in the payoff passage from that article: many in the comments found article sophomoric, but this the reason
i get up every day, struggling with the page and wrestling w/my demons, trying to create words that matter:
"The point is truth and beauty, without which our lives will lack grace and meaning and our civilization will be spiritually hollowed out and the historical bottom line will be that future epochs will remember us as a coarse and philistine people who squandered our bottomlessly rich cultural inheritance for short-term and meaningless financial advantage."
im out, may the coming year be good to you
may the coming year be good to us all
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