Prateek Joshi's Blog - Posts Tagged "first-blog"
Introduction
Hello, people
I have recently released a book of short poems, titled, "Anatomy of a Self-Indulgent Moongazer." many thanks to those who have decided to read it. With much anticipation, the book was written, or edited even. The time it took from gathering the poems and fixing and fitting them to give the book a backstory was overwhelming.
It happened just after I had quit my job as a junior doctor in a medical college. The job indeed was helpful as it was during it that much of the content established. The job gave an ample amount of money to keep me on the move. I thoroughly enjoyed what I wrote, and the tradition of sitting in a restaurant while sipping refreshing beverages continued.
I wrote the poems with an excess of excitement, and a novice writer was behind the screen. These poems first published on Instagram, where only a handful of people were into them. Even then, I decided to keep writing anyway as the ideas kept flourishing. I must admit that initially, the book was not an idea I had. I was more inclined to full-fledged poems, which I was writing, and I am still under the process of editing them to create another book.
I decided to keep working on something substantial after I quit the job, and the idea that turned out in my head was getting these poems published. I had no idea when I started editing them that the process might take this while. I was in front of the screen for around a month, and every time I sat down with the manuscript, something else just needed to be corrected. The idea prospered, and I lead the poems into a better plane.
After a month of heavy work of 2-3 hours each day, almost, this book turned out. There were many changes. I had to re-write many things—much of the work I deleted. Seeing them again makes me feel inappropriate as to how I could even have written. But, of course, they were written while hopping on one idea to the next, and some were bound to be a burden.
I started with 450 poem-pieces and ended with 170. that is how much the work had to go under transformation, and finally, the book was published.
I hope you enjoy the book and relish in its meaning.
I have recently released a book of short poems, titled, "Anatomy of a Self-Indulgent Moongazer." many thanks to those who have decided to read it. With much anticipation, the book was written, or edited even. The time it took from gathering the poems and fixing and fitting them to give the book a backstory was overwhelming.
It happened just after I had quit my job as a junior doctor in a medical college. The job indeed was helpful as it was during it that much of the content established. The job gave an ample amount of money to keep me on the move. I thoroughly enjoyed what I wrote, and the tradition of sitting in a restaurant while sipping refreshing beverages continued.
I wrote the poems with an excess of excitement, and a novice writer was behind the screen. These poems first published on Instagram, where only a handful of people were into them. Even then, I decided to keep writing anyway as the ideas kept flourishing. I must admit that initially, the book was not an idea I had. I was more inclined to full-fledged poems, which I was writing, and I am still under the process of editing them to create another book.
I decided to keep working on something substantial after I quit the job, and the idea that turned out in my head was getting these poems published. I had no idea when I started editing them that the process might take this while. I was in front of the screen for around a month, and every time I sat down with the manuscript, something else just needed to be corrected. The idea prospered, and I lead the poems into a better plane.
After a month of heavy work of 2-3 hours each day, almost, this book turned out. There were many changes. I had to re-write many things—much of the work I deleted. Seeing them again makes me feel inappropriate as to how I could even have written. But, of course, they were written while hopping on one idea to the next, and some were bound to be a burden.
I started with 450 poem-pieces and ended with 170. that is how much the work had to go under transformation, and finally, the book was published.
I hope you enjoy the book and relish in its meaning.
