#writersbloque

See for what it is and not what it was. Many homes are museums and many museums are home now -Ayana Arora

To those working on their first novel. You can do this -- writing your first novel will be terrifying, but so empowering. Self-publishing is even more empowering; but much more risk and money. You have the story to tell: so finish it for us, and share it with the world.

I like to write myself to sleep, into remembrance, into and out of love, I like to create from my own violet dreams, untangle the madness of thought forms swarming this mind like roots growing out and round every direction, take them to a place where they’ll be rocked to sleep, gently taken inside, brushed off and made beautiful, I like to bend the memories into better things, to alter past day dreams, and tell myself that it meant something, like the treasure we hid for safe keeping behind the playground bushes, that reminded me of the friend I lost that year, the isolation that breathed inside of me, and stayed with you, when they told me, I had the holy ghost, and all I felt was a loneliness for a life I couldn’t live.

A poem a day for April is what I’d said I’d do A few jaunty lines that flow and rhyme; perhaps a metaphor or two Just think and write and edit it a bit throughout the day It’s so simple and straightforward that I’ve started it in May.