Woman As Art
The Old Soldier has had his share of writer’s block. Well, after more than forty years of writing short stories, do you know what I’ve realized about writer’s block? Your creativity is just taking a break.
Writer’s block is nothing to be concerned about. You don’t worry when your body needs a good night of sleep, do you? So, don’t worry when you have writer’s block.
A new period of creativity is just around the corner.
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Jack Kerouac
I’m nearly finished with my biography of Jack Kerouac that I checked out of the public library several days ago. I do believe that a writer has to live it up in order to write it down. (Although, from what I know of Emily Dickinson, which is not much, she was a home-body and an excellent poet. I like her poetry.)
I also believe that a writer has to distinguish between self-instruction and self-destruction. No wonder Jack Kerouac died at a relatively young age (47).
Of course, some people are self-destructive by nature, whether or not they produce great writing. Most writers, myself included, will never be considered great writers like Kerouac. We just live our lives and get our writing done the best we can.
Jack Kerouac Reads On the Road (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
But it’s always fascinating and very instructive to read about writers like Jack Kerouac. Their lives are full of the dos and don’ts of being a writer.
Oh, and realize that there are also plenty of great writers who live well into old age. Guess which group of writers I admire the most?
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Karaoke March 9, 2012 And Other Interesting Things
I was watching Cool TV a few days ago and the station played Wanted Dead or Alive by Bon Jovi. That’s going to be my first song tonight.
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Some time next week, I’ll invite the Matriarch over to sample some of my crock pot chili. Sis will bring her over. Now that I have financial stability I can stop worrying about myself and start focusing on other people. And me old mum is a good place to start. I also need to think more about my brother in the assisted living facility; but I never want to talk to him on a Friday because he always wants to hang with me at karaoke. The last thing he needs is a drink. He is the classic drunk. Always one drink away from full-blown alcoholism.
So, I will have to give careful thought to how I re-engage with him.
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Bon Jovi Concert Stage (Photo credit: Anirudh Koul)
The poem, “Until Morning Comes” by Linda A. Long, is stuck to the Front Page and is the first poem that the Pittsburgh Flash Fiction Gazette has paid a $3.00 fee to the poet for publication in the PFF Gazette. The poet retains all rights to her work. Check it out before I rotate it to the archives.
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Well, the Old Soldier has done his breathing and stretching exercises (I’ve been doing them all week) and this is his second post and it’s not 11:00 am yet. It’s time to take a hot shower and then go on a beer run and then come back and do some laundry.
You see, the editor/publisher of the most dynamic flash fiction publication on the Internet is just like you. He’s just older than most of you.
Gray power!
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