It’s Tuesday but feels to me like it should be Friday. Come
with me to the confessional.
Dear reader:
When it’s Tuesday night and you feel like you’ve already
endured a whole work week this is not a good thing, but I digress. It’s been a week since my last confession. A
week of coughing each morning and thinking that tomorrow I’ll be better. I
confess that I thought I would be more on the mend by now.
I recently bought a poetry eBook by accident. I was on my
Blackberry and from my Kindle app I was trying to download the preview. If I
liked the preview I would likely buy the title as a real book. By accident I clicked the wrong link (they were next to
each other and on the phone app it’s hard to tell which is highlighted). I realized it immediately and contacted
Amazon. I never opened the download and it remained in my archive until they
did a refund. I decided with my Amazon account set on one click purchase I
needed to change this. You ask, “Why are you telling me this?” Ah yes, that would be my confession. I cannot
see me buying poetry in eBook format.
Maybe a novel, maybe non-fiction, but poetry, no!
I like my poetry in print on a page. If I look at a poetry
book and I like it, I’m probably going to read it over and over. Many of my
copies are ultimately autographed by the author. Do that on your eBook reader! So am I just a crazy old guy that refuses to
change? Don’t feel obligated to answer
that.
In spite of the week feeling like it should be over I
confess I have no idea how we got to the 13th of December already. I
think I’ve missed a lot of opportunity this year. I started out like gangbusters submitting
work but cooled off late summer to a crawl.
A lot of my writing plans went by the wayside this fall but I don’t
really want to lament – I’d prefer to think about next year since it will be
here lickity split. Besides, 2010 was a dry year for publication and this year
I did have successes. There is that to be thankful for.
What are you thankful for this year?
