We Are Not Trapped Or Locked Up

All Great Popular Literature Today One Day Will Be Seen As Great Literature And Will No Longer Be Seen As Popular Literature.

Poetry Teaches Us Music, Metaphor, Condensation And Specificity.

... You Should Wait Until The Book Is Finished Before Making A Judgment On Its Content. By The Time You Have Gone Through Twenty Drafts, The Characters May Have Developed Lives Of Their Own, Completely Separate From The People You Based Them On In The Beginning. And Even If Someone, At Some Time, Gets Upset With Your Words - So What? Live Your Life, Sing Your Song. Anyone Who Loves You Will Want You To Have That.

The Process Of Writing A Novel Is Like Taking A Journey By Boat. You Have To Continually Set Yourself On Course. If You Get Distracted Or Allow Yourself To Drift, You Will Never Make It To The Destination. It's Not Like Highly Defined Train Tracks Or A Highway; This Is A Path That You Are Creating Discovering. The Journey Is Your Narrative. Keep To It And There Will Be A Tale Told.

At One Time If You Were A Black Writer You Had To Be One Of The Best Writers In The World To Be Published. You Had To Be Great. Now You Can Be Good. Mediocre. And That's Good.