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moments fading

02 Wednesday Apr 2014

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January, what bananas to think a good start would last so long, just two months into the new year

settled into february until it came to a skidding stop on the 27th.

like, “sorry, but we really can’t keep going.”

no, seriously.

whatever.

jobs come and go. just gotta find my flow.

which is making me think i need a new space for a professional, creative take on literary work, to make my work.

i’ll keep this space as well. as my personal spout through longwinded phrases and the warped wrap of syntax that slow creeps over the lines and makes life seem so simple and direct and not happening in random sections and cause and effect projected into 3D.

oh baby, life is a joy.

let’s figure this out and take things where they are leading,

many avenues are open

[sorry for no posts in months. lots has happened and needed time to process.]

 

Happy Anniversary…Again

03 Tuesday Dec 2013

Posted by kels! in Life

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Logged in to see that it was 5 years ago, in a boring high school class as my 17-year-old self created this blog as a place for my words. Let’s see what has changed:

  • Graduated High School
  • Got into college
  • Focused on what I love; literature and creative writing.
  • Have four notebooks with notes for four books
  • many completed short stories
  • many poems
  • created a multimedia poetry project (See: Words From Paint link)
  • Finished a manuscript for a poetry book
  • Graduated from college with a BA; in four years
  • Internship at a magazine publishing company
  • Hired as the Assistant Editor for the magazine publishing company
  • helped launch brand new magazine, First Coast magazine, along with the three other magazines we put out
  • go on photo shoots a lot
  • coordinate and assign stories
  • write articles
  • edit
  • grown up things

yeah, that’s why I haven’t posted as much as I used to.

Please stay tuned.

Thanks for sticking around.

Time flies, man.

Pizza & Conceptual Poetry

11 Thursday Jul 2013

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I finished my first full length manuscript that I am on the hunt to get published as a paperback!
E-book too, but I want to get something of mine in print. And it’s not fiction, it’s conceptual poetry! What a twist! I started writing it as a silly constraint to entertain me as I read Postmodern American Poetry Second Edition anthology to update myself before I spoke with a poetess about Flarf poetry. The result is 114 stanzas created from words used in 114 poets’ poems. Each stanza having as many lines as poems were included for each poet. The most lines in one stanza was thirteen. The smallest stanza is one line.
I have communicated with the editor of the anthology I used as reference & sent him a copy of the manuscript. It’s like my baby is running across country: both a proud moment & a moment of unbelievable fear.
Although I most just write poetry-like things on here, my main writing is fiction; long, random bursts of prose, nano, flash, or short stories.

As I sit here eating pizza, & writing this through the WordPress app, I am thinking of how things have changed. I graduate with my BA August 2nd. My resume has been primed for me to start submitting it, & I want to take care of me & bf’s house.

Times they are a-changin’.

26 Monday Nov 2012

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“No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published.”
Russell Lynes

Pause from the poetry: The Call of a Soon to be Newly Graduated English Major Who Needs A Job to Make into A Career

29 Wednesday Aug 2012

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Basically, a little less than a year until I graduate from college and can finally apply to those jobs that require a Bachelor degree.

But where to next? That is the big question.

Most people assume when I say that my major is English that I want to teach,

and that is not exactly the case.

I’ve thought about teaching, briefly, but it feels for me as a career for when I’m older and my kids (if/when I have any) would be older as well. I would have to teach at least 11th grade English, and follow the formula my 11th grade teacher made us do. Read, make the arguments to him, he’d argue the other sides, and made sure we wrote a lot. Only English class I had that prepared me for college. Well, my senior English teacher did tell me to always follow the professor’s format for papers, but that is pure stylistic choice. (And the only way you’ll pass any college course.)

Mostly, I want to edit. Books, articles, I’m hesitant about newspapers, but copy-editing is copy editing. Book editing I’m most excited about because I love to follow an author through that process of defining, then redefining, and then molding the plot together into the characters and have situations be curious and attention grabbing. I’ve been working on short stories, I’m three chapters into a novel, with a couple other novels in the beginning stages, and, as WordPress and those of you who read here know best, I have a penchant for off-kilter poetry at times. Rant about a subject, argument, bring in examples from stories, and possible ways to make the story more striking to the reader, to pull the eyes through the tale even when they know they should be asleep but aren’t so when they do wake for the morning and go to work they feel like weights are dragging down their face–but even so people read because they cannot stop reading the tale that captivates, inspires, and fulfills a need to experience what you yourself have not actually gone through, except as a passenger by vision(or hearing or touch, depending on how you have access to stories) alone. That is the most amazing thing of stories. Simple words alined to bring new worlds or perspectives to anyone who pays attention enough to get anything out of it.

I’ve loved books since I was 3 years old. I need to be around them. As Mom said to me recently, “You seem lost when you don’t have a book to read at the moment.” Because when I’m not actually reading, but in the middle, that’s where my head is still at. Same goes when I’m in the middle of writing a story. Which is always. As I am improving, expanding, writing long stories, and still trying to condense two different ideas I have into some flash fiction to get my words out there and to pave the way for some novels.

That’s my peace, there is what I want my life to consist of, but with the vaguest way into it, and a long year to make the journey seem like it’s undergoing instead of still a daydream spilled out into a post of another unknown writer trying to bust her way into the business.

Thanks for reading, if you made it through. Advice, criticism, random bursts of thought, feeling, or lecture is always accepted in one way or another.

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