What’s up party people in the place to be, this blog entry has been brewing for a few days now.
I was talking to a friend about the idea that “you could be doing more” or me feeling like I could be doing more and he brought up the idea that 9/10 times thoughts like that actually tend to be more demotivational than motivational.
And I’ve been doing my part, creatively. I’m not drawing too much right now but I am reading a new book of poetry every few weeks or so and I am working a Full Time job and finding times to study for the Fall Semester of 2020.
So I’m doing 3 things that happen to be major life choices and I guess it’s important to try not to put too much on my plate. That’s how I see it right now anyway.
Studying and work are all well and good but this poetry journey is something else entirely. I’ve so far been introduced to many new styles of poetry, comedic, historical reference, deliberately misspelled words/books and I’ve come to realize the freedom there is in modern poetry. Things are necessarily bound by rhyme but in that same freedom I wonder how much poetry beats on the same subject.
But maybe these subjects are so prominent in poetry because they are poetic in nature.
I’ve been documenting this journey on both of my instagram accounts with a review of the last book accompanying the new book I’m going to read.
The subjects that have the most repetition throughout books are nature, raising children, love/romance and affirmation/self-discovery.
I want to write a new book of poetry closer in style to modern poems I’m reading but I don’t know how near or far away that book is, financially.
Also my ad-campaign for my latest book “Lovers” gave me their results and out of like 1 millions impressions there were about 300 clicks so, that got the gears turning or at least oiled up for how to effectively advertise on social media.
All in all life isn’t bad, and this blog isn’t as politically charged as the last one but Black Lives Still Matter, they won’t ever not matter and I’m hoping I have to say that less rather than more often.
Anyway, that’s it for me for the month of August, if I feel the urge to write more or figure something else out, I will.
Either way, keep it classy and I’ll see you next time.
Thanks for reading, buh-bye!