Category: Q TITLES

Book Birthday

Do You have a copy, Yet?

Feeling like I did Something

Well…I finished writing Queer Verbage which will not release until April…it seems so far away…but it is one less thing I have hanging over me. I can do the formatting and get the stuff done for publishing.
I cannot explain why the need to finish it was so strong, but having it done is a weight off. Now I have Tears of the Broken, Dream Drops, Fighting Ignorance, Ocular Dystopia, Occult Madness in progress for me and Chasing Ghosts for Serena.
When I mentioned to my Daughter how I felt like I was struggling with it, she said I was pushing too hard. She said that if I worked any harder she would never get to see me. Sorry, she comes first there. But it did make me wonder…what is the right amount? I try to write as I feel the urge, but I also try to set a daily goal so I actually get forward progress on more than just the poetry volumes…because I tend to get easily distracted from my stories. I am aware there is a discipline to this…and I am a child of chaos.
So where is the happy medium for me? That is something I am going to be working with over the next few weeks. I need to set me a workable time schedule for writing and work that I can stick to…or at least attempt to. Let’s see how that goes?

Monday Poetry

Still working on writing Queer Verbage but it is the hyperfocus… so here’s 2 from it.

Doing it slightly different

Normally, if I set up the link for a book…It is at least completely written. This time I am starting that process early. Queer Verbage, at the time of this post is 10 poems away from being done…But I wanted to secure the April release date. The publishing schedule fills up so fast…I wanted to be sure when this would release. And considering I have been fixated on this volume…I do not see myself having issues writing 10 poems in nearly four months.

Pad challenge Day 15

Prompt: Pronouns

Okay this one was hard. Just saying.

Pad challenge Day 14

Prompt: Anti- Love

Note: this is usually the day I end up skipping. The two for Tuesday that he gives out the love/anti love prompt. I end up going to my prompt folder normally for the inspiration…. today it clicked. Not all prompts will click until the right project is in the works.

Monday poetry

2 from Queer Verbaige

Book Birthday – Quiet Screams

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New titles and Links

So between the blog and Facebook, the most popular choice was Muse’s Masterpiece for the next volume. I am already started in on it.

Release Dates for Upcoming books:

Tomorrow July 7 Quiet Screams
July 14 Anthology Alumni
August 4 The Lunatic Asylum Screams
August 18 On My Way Home
August 25 Blood Red Rain By Serena Mossgraves

I do not know if I will have Serena Doing anymore Poetry. I enjoy exploring the Darker poetry with her, but at the same time it is exhausting to have so many projects open at once. I am hoping to still have Xactly Poetic releasing in September. I have it over half way written. This year has been a busy writing year for me. I have released more volumes this year than I often do. I have a kid’s book I have been trying to get illustrated for Kid’s week in December.

Progress on Poetry

I chose to copy some of this from the previous post…and add to it.

Xactly Poetic is currently up to 47/70 poems

Queer Verbiage is up to 26/70 poems

On my way home is up to 54/70

Fighting Ignorance is up to 23/70

Dream Drips is at 6/70

Serena’s Blood Red Rain is at 48/70

Occult Madness is at 3/70

Ocular Dystopia is at 2/70

As you can see… I am making progress… but I’m not sure if I am going to be done with any of them soon… that being said… I am setting a September release date tentatively for Xactly Poetic. I think that I can do that deadline. I say tentatively as I don’t have it finished and I don’t want to promise something that I can’t do.

It feels so strange to me to have so many volumes in progress. But many of them have a theme… which means that I am limited to what goes into them.

Xactly Poetic is all about the form. I am a free verse poet – so writing to the form is a challenge for me and my writing skills.

Queer Verbage is all about being a non-binary pansexual and the rainbow magic in my life.

On my way home is not themed, really…but like many of my volumes it is picking up a slight theme of the journey and what home is to me. Though I am not doing it on purpose.

Fighting ignorance is political poetry… and my opinions there are strong.

Dream Drips is about addiction.

Occult Madness is about pagan ideas, and religious thought.

Ocular Dystopia is all Visual Poetry.

And of course Serena is dark poetry.