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Editing & Ambience
I compiled the book in a month after quitting my job as a doctor in the local medical college after some bad experiences. During this time, I enveloped myself in the ideas that lead to the poem-pieces. At the beginning of the editing process, I was unsure about how to go with it. I typed them, approximately 450, and decided to build a theme for each section of the book. It took a while before I set out breaking, piecing together, and arranging them. At first, I was confused about what to include in the book. The themes based on the mood draw me to write them down, and the phases were somewhat different nearly every month.
The palette varied, alternating between self-reflection and exuberance. It read great on Instagram (where I posted all the work and continue to do so), but they just could not be made into the book. The reason being their insufficiency to captivate me. I wrote a lot of it on a spree, quickly getting to 10 poems in two hours. The maximum stretch I made was around 15 poems in one sitting. I discarded many. They just could not be saved.
I sat on most times in a hotel and got some fantastic food and something to drink. I became a regular visitor, even going with an empty wallet and no card to pay for the snacks. The manager was helpful and also suggested the best of food on the menu.
While editing took its time, I was not visiting the hotel and did it in the comfort of home. Having quit my job, I was at complete rest to indulge in some writing. Initially, I was not convinced about the feasibility to self-publish, which I did eventually. I started copying the poems as a word document, beginning to realize that many poems would not last the heavy scrutiny.
The spectacle turned into a festival when I narrowed the manuscript down to around 200 poems. Since then, they have been erased from every social media and also my devices. What I found in them was an ugliness I no longer could deny. The rest, over the next few weeks, settled into what finally appears in the book.
The idea was never to talk about a story through poems, but it developed as I did the editing and saw a common thread piecing together the poem-pieces. If written to stage a story, the mind worked well enough to explore the psyche of a troubled man who journeys the depths of the mind. I worked with the book, keeping my head straight to carve out the deep and strange profundity in the experienPrateek Joshice.
Keeping the spirits alive, the 'moongazer' reaches for the stars and sees it all, behind his eyes.
I turned a blind gaze to what the 'moongazer' would become with his imagination pulling the strings of his life with a stiff upper lip.
The palette varied, alternating between self-reflection and exuberance. It read great on Instagram (where I posted all the work and continue to do so), but they just could not be made into the book. The reason being their insufficiency to captivate me. I wrote a lot of it on a spree, quickly getting to 10 poems in two hours. The maximum stretch I made was around 15 poems in one sitting. I discarded many. They just could not be saved.
I sat on most times in a hotel and got some fantastic food and something to drink. I became a regular visitor, even going with an empty wallet and no card to pay for the snacks. The manager was helpful and also suggested the best of food on the menu.
While editing took its time, I was not visiting the hotel and did it in the comfort of home. Having quit my job, I was at complete rest to indulge in some writing. Initially, I was not convinced about the feasibility to self-publish, which I did eventually. I started copying the poems as a word document, beginning to realize that many poems would not last the heavy scrutiny.
The spectacle turned into a festival when I narrowed the manuscript down to around 200 poems. Since then, they have been erased from every social media and also my devices. What I found in them was an ugliness I no longer could deny. The rest, over the next few weeks, settled into what finally appears in the book.
The idea was never to talk about a story through poems, but it developed as I did the editing and saw a common thread piecing together the poem-pieces. If written to stage a story, the mind worked well enough to explore the psyche of a troubled man who journeys the depths of the mind. I worked with the book, keeping my head straight to carve out the deep and strange profundity in the experienPrateek Joshice.
Keeping the spirits alive, the 'moongazer' reaches for the stars and sees it all, behind his eyes.
I turned a blind gaze to what the 'moongazer' would become with his imagination pulling the strings of his life with a stiff upper lip.
