Started writing it two decades ago,404Please respect copyright.PENANAQ9B9hiPbae
Using a pseudonym for first/last time,404Please respect copyright.PENANApBZaOv8lTZ
To protect the guilty and innocent,404Please respect copyright.PENANAlh5WFoN7oq
In this autobiographical work.404Please respect copyright.PENANAbyFfT4kMBG
404Please respect copyright.PENANAYrelKxfM4M
Life got in the way of reliving it,404Please respect copyright.PENANAWquR35K3vv
Work, wife, parents with health issues, now gone,404Please respect copyright.PENANAXJpfVl7Mat
Back burners full of overflowing pots,404Please respect copyright.PENANAtuTRkNDM5j
The sands of time quickly sifting through my fingers.404Please respect copyright.PENANAiGOr9wr6n3
404Please respect copyright.PENANAZYKAqqDCdE
Serious writing projects completed,404Please respect copyright.PENANAqAxx5xx6FO
A dozen plus books published,404Please respect copyright.PENANAHKjXwO2W29
Others yet to come, new lectures to plan,404Please respect copyright.PENANAlKbmV0vZDU
New courses to develop and to teach.404Please respect copyright.PENANAvAYgk8X6SD
404Please respect copyright.PENANAQRzbM3coBU
My story untold, lessons learned unfurled,404Please respect copyright.PENANAef5KDScEIb
But not not written down to pass down my truth,404Please respect copyright.PENANAjTnkPbFJry
About things I know much more than I'd like,404Please respect copyright.PENANAhYKrlJtEVm
And others should learn, in old age and youth.404Please respect copyright.PENANAgI37ZBK78s
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Place bound for now on an imposed lockdown,404Please respect copyright.PENANAS9HvHe35eQ
Chained to my desk like galley slaves to oars,404Please respect copyright.PENANA4mDvrPnn71
Taping lectures, attending Zoom meetings,404Please respect copyright.PENANATI6Jdx6opB
Depression abounds, if not joy or sleep.404Please respect copyright.PENANAi9jzzMTlsl
404Please respect copyright.PENANAO6yGZklpqm
So I'm back again, reliving the past,404Please respect copyright.PENANATlBKRD8C92
In memory still green, though browning in parts,404Please respect copyright.PENANA6T1icxwBVb
Taking poetic license where I must,404Please respect copyright.PENANAyB2sEbBavB
But gently as a child's butterfly kiss.404Please respect copyright.PENANAKgdRKtcFS6
404Please respect copyright.PENANArjg1wQj5G1
Nearly nine thousand words today for just,404Please respect copyright.PENANAXAdc6BO55x
One day's events that sowed a thousand seeds,404Please respect copyright.PENANA3wyA0m2BUx
That sprouted, flourished and died or were pecked,404Please respect copyright.PENANAWILLh7rsIu
By hungry vultures out of existence.404Please respect copyright.PENANAMNVaNqY79l
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Remembering a day in my career,404Please respect copyright.PENANAe9hLVGkcCb
When I still viewed the world with bright, clear eyes,404Please respect copyright.PENANAlyjyMgu8mP
And had not opened doors I could not close,404Please respect copyright.PENANAwgsNvMfS4G
Or walked by closed doors I should have opened.404Please respect copyright.PENANA1cZimVuelG
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My world and heart were then innocent, pure,404Please respect copyright.PENANAPmJLNyj5zc
Full of good intentions waiting to burst,404Please respect copyright.PENANANAQJilN5ZM
From a chest that could hardly hold them back,404Please respect copyright.PENANANIPnUXXiKn
Foolishly thinking they could change the world.404Please respect copyright.PENANALO6NpsOoBt
404Please respect copyright.PENANA6VI3SE8MFy
The painful memories I now drown in,404Please respect copyright.PENANA9dhWoueUPx
I will not disclose. The pain I've given,404Please respect copyright.PENANA6VJYPsOdYZ
The pain I've received, I'll whitewash away,404Please respect copyright.PENANArKUpRosT7K
To protect myself and those I have loved.404Please respect copyright.PENANAjVglzbvmLs
404Please respect copyright.PENANADLNMnIbeUa
I'll limit my journey to work alone,404Please respect copyright.PENANAmK7XMFzF8r
Describe what I've learned that others should know,404Please respect copyright.PENANAZUSHvjCeMi
Weave the personal with transparent thread,404Please respect copyright.PENANA7zakVodUrS
The professional with thickest red yarn.404Please respect copyright.PENANAyxGUaoOLL1
404Please respect copyright.PENANAoBGiPY6tzJ
I'll search for an agent when it is done,404Please respect copyright.PENANAPEjzoW3JXH
As I'd like it read, unlike indie books,404Please respect copyright.PENANA23FGgikEQ5
And I believe it will find a market,404Please respect copyright.PENANACftNxm5uFz
For it will reveal some essential truths.404Please respect copyright.PENANAzzFrwV3S66
404Please respect copyright.PENANA9YoYdLUopb
It will teach much more that all need to know,404Please respect copyright.PENANANJXRB6Uns0
Than my life's work: Lectures, books, articles,404Please respect copyright.PENANAxOXqE21TRT
Poetry, fiction, blogs, presentations,404Please respect copyright.PENANA4KSoya9zhU
Hope I can write it before my life ends.404Please respect copyright.PENANAAOoE2zavZk
404Please respect copyright.PENANA42WmjZNdVB
My sand's running out, tick tock cries the clock,404Please respect copyright.PENANAodcw1cisul
Hope lockdown provides, end to writer's block.404Please respect copyright.PENANA0ykrj9upyC
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Victor D. Lopez
ISSUE #7
On Writing My First Novel (poem)
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Last updated: Mar 24, 2026
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