I've recently been thinking about continuing my book: A BOOK IS LIKE A SACRED ISLE: A Rain of Booklight; a Book about Books;
I realized that I had only written and posted them here on this Blog site and
that I needed to collect them into a manuscript; so that is what I've doing for
the last two days.
But as I was working away I wondered why I
had bothered writing all this ‘Book about Books’ stuff anyway: nobody would
ever read it! (My irrational fear of
approaching publishers has been growing lately, rather than shrinking!)
Then yesterday evening a dear friend of
mine, Ray, texted me that he had just finished reading all the poems for this
proposed book, which I had sent him over two months ago, and what he shared encouraged
and comforted me . . . for I know that Ray only writes circumspectly,
truthfully, and is careful with his praise of anything I've written: so that
when he does write a kindly critique I can be assured of its veracity!
‘. .
. I really loved the ‘A BOOK IS LIKE...’ poems . . . quite amazing wee things!’
I’d been seriously thinking that I must have been crazy to write over 40 poems on the same theme!! ...When I asked him if people
would get sick of so many poems with the same opening line . . . ‘A book is
like...’ ...he said:
‘I thought they were all quite different and
unique so that makes them good.
Then after Ray texted the above he
reminded me of 'The Bookmark Project' idea....I had almost forgotten it! I must give it some more thought. He wrote:
And if they are printed on
bookmarks then it’s a good thing that there are so many, like ‘collectors’
things!’
Just a few words of hope . . . and a little bit of encouragement go a long way! J
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