Would That I Might

More has happened than that You only know some of it and if I tried to tell the rest you would dismiss it, too, despite you knowing I should be trusted, that it is established. There are other factors: that is what you would say.

I've been wanting to put together a manuscript for a full length collection of poetry for a while now, and I certainly have the work to do it, but the real issue is in terms of actually crafting a book.  It's important to me that it not just be a bunch of poems thrown together into a single volume but that it work as a cohesive piece.  I know that I was able to accomplish that in Blaze without Burning , so I know that I can do it, but until recently, I have sort of been struggling with how to approach it.  In the past few days, though, I started to get an idea about what I want to center the book around and what I am hoping to be able to write about in it.  There are some pretty big themes swirling in my head at the moment, and I am going to need to write a bunch of new poems that will serve as a sort of center for things, but I believe that much of what I am hoping to explore is already reflected in my poems, it is just that I am now more conscious of cultivating th...

Society Some people want to argue it started because one guy was big and mean and he wanted other people to do things for him,  and being a big, mean guy, he kind of made sure that happened, and organized everybody he could into some kind of service, and that is how it started out, at least according to some folks, but even if that was how it began, we have to know the point is different now, that we are  not doing this for the same reasons, that it has to be for everybody to be better, for the benefit of all of us as a group and as individuals as well.

I've had some exciting news about Blaze without Burning recently.  The final galleys have been turned over to the printer, so now it is just a matter of waiting until it is an actual book in the world.  I am told there may be a slight delay in the arrival of copies, but the book is at the printers now, I believe.  In addition, I finalized an agreement to have an e-book edition as well, which I think is pretty exciting.  At the moment, I am mainly just waiting for things to pop off.  I should probably be appreciating the calm and quiet for now, but the anticipation makes that a bit difficult.

I should not be so afraid It would help, I think, and maybe things could be different if I were not this way, if I  did not cower and worry about the damage that might be inflicted. It is not easy to change these things, and I worry that I can't, but I  want to, which is, isn't it, a start.

I have been pushing myself to write a lot lately, and I feel like it is pushing me.  In some ways, it is more about just writing so much that I kind of use up the easy things, I think, at least in part.  I think it is also about those kinds of flow experiences, that it is natural to kind of slip deeper as it prolongs.  Of course, I am also sure that writing more is just going to make me a better writer because it is practice writing, which is up there on the list of things to do to work on being a better writer in general.  Really, though, I don't think it is that I am getting better in some way that I can tangibly point towards, it is more a sense that when I write more, somehow the percentage of the work that is actually hitting feels higher, at least to me.