Started writing it two decades ago,87Please respect copyright.PENANAB0xlvqAu1p
Using a pseudonym for first/last time,87Please respect copyright.PENANAHBs1jDpbnS
To protect the guilty and innocent,87Please respect copyright.PENANAmrYrgYqYJw
In this autobiographical work.87Please respect copyright.PENANAmEW73US0eT
87Please respect copyright.PENANAbus4Nbo811
Life got in the way of reliving it,87Please respect copyright.PENANAxmxpBiR185
Work, wife, parents with health issues, now gone,87Please respect copyright.PENANAm3wC2IEUqU
Back burners full of overflowing pots,87Please respect copyright.PENANAhAKg6aDl01
The sands of time quickly sifting through my fingers.87Please respect copyright.PENANAAjuXkYg0aI
87Please respect copyright.PENANAj3Soiek2dl
Serious writing projects completed,87Please respect copyright.PENANASblzwrF5M9
A dozen plus books published,87Please respect copyright.PENANAILBq2sCMJn
Others yet to come, new lectures to plan,87Please respect copyright.PENANAo2IcncMMEY
New courses to develop and to teach.87Please respect copyright.PENANAsjJYTtzBrX
87Please respect copyright.PENANACKrjqfhQU5
My story untold, lessons learned unfurled,87Please respect copyright.PENANA8BFk5aMjXN
But not not written down to pass down my truth,87Please respect copyright.PENANAILvV7uUhYL
About things I know much more than I'd like,87Please respect copyright.PENANASSmWzJYCDB
And others should learn, in old age and youth.87Please respect copyright.PENANAcfvk0FpcQK
87Please respect copyright.PENANAEMGoCZYhpV
Place bound for now on an imposed lockdown,87Please respect copyright.PENANAH8MfRl2Wzy
Chained to my desk like galley slaves to oars,87Please respect copyright.PENANAZssymTfBB0
Taping lectures, attending Zoom meetings,87Please respect copyright.PENANAsGiDDBUxV9
Depression abounds, if not joy or sleep.87Please respect copyright.PENANALoFiyRtZWK
87Please respect copyright.PENANAB9K6dWOzpN
So I'm back again, reliving the past,87Please respect copyright.PENANA9yeQKF9wAh
In memory still green, though browning in parts,87Please respect copyright.PENANAIxlpj5D4Fn
Taking poetic license where I must,87Please respect copyright.PENANALx4Eb8Fpjt
But gently as a child's butterfly kiss.87Please respect copyright.PENANAJMK7wRrVx1
87Please respect copyright.PENANAuTQ0fiq8XT
Nearly nine thousand words today for just,87Please respect copyright.PENANAUZVt5t5X27
One day's events that sowed a thousand seeds,87Please respect copyright.PENANAw3obTk3RQA
That sprouted, flourished and died or were pecked,87Please respect copyright.PENANAfKhsbadVfL
By hungry vultures out of existence.87Please respect copyright.PENANAow93Vx5vg9
87Please respect copyright.PENANABmYZESkT7H
Remembering a day in my career,87Please respect copyright.PENANAnLB1zgtU37
When I still viewed the world with bright, clear eyes,87Please respect copyright.PENANADTiko29wav
And had not opened doors I could not close,87Please respect copyright.PENANADciL00CLrD
Or walked by closed doors I should have opened.87Please respect copyright.PENANAOvKlsIC4J6
87Please respect copyright.PENANAjJKKJXiYBw
My world and heart were then innocent, pure,87Please respect copyright.PENANAGlFVBTZBJQ
Full of good intentions waiting to burst,87Please respect copyright.PENANAsZe3Y5yHdi
From a chest that could hardly hold them back,87Please respect copyright.PENANAvC1GH4jyhk
Foolishly thinking they could change the world.87Please respect copyright.PENANAEi2eR6iRhw
87Please respect copyright.PENANAbNS7ELhaRW
The painful memories I now drown in,87Please respect copyright.PENANAZoGoi5YUHp
I will not disclose. The pain I've given,87Please respect copyright.PENANANJTAp0IN05
The pain I've received, I'll whitewash away,87Please respect copyright.PENANA4Wyc2QTU4w
To protect myself and those I have loved.87Please respect copyright.PENANA5tlMsnkY0T
87Please respect copyright.PENANA37kkUJIOj0
I'll limit my journey to work alone,87Please respect copyright.PENANAVNvP8M6e6i
Describe what I've learned that others should know,87Please respect copyright.PENANAnxeO09kfqT
Weave the personal with transparent thread,87Please respect copyright.PENANAhe8DmSuTtn
The professional with thickest red yarn.87Please respect copyright.PENANAiIny1LWJ8d
87Please respect copyright.PENANAVpDhD0aDDA
I'll search for an agent when it is done,87Please respect copyright.PENANArqoJ53YnoX
As I'd like it read, unlike indie books,87Please respect copyright.PENANAkCXvqZrSGX
And I believe it will find a market,87Please respect copyright.PENANAOBAe7pPrZr
For it will reveal some essential truths.87Please respect copyright.PENANA05SD0vOJze
87Please respect copyright.PENANAQlq4DHTU6Z
It will teach much more that all need to know,87Please respect copyright.PENANAvSJOM3hoMm
Than my life's work: Lectures, books, articles,87Please respect copyright.PENANAsYlewVViNe
Poetry, fiction, blogs, presentations,87Please respect copyright.PENANAJ6Ud8O4zXA
Hope I can write it before my life ends.87Please respect copyright.PENANAwOfWI98n47
87Please respect copyright.PENANAfEcpzwd1fI
My sand's running out, tick tock cries the clock,87Please respect copyright.PENANAIfG0TEzzpl
Hope lockdown provides, end to writer's block.87Please respect copyright.PENANAcaint4ogZO
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Victor D. Lopez

ISSUE #7
On Writing My First Novel (poem)
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Last updated: Jun 1, 2025
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