I love books in the
paperback format there's just something liberating about paperback
book. I probably really started reading paperbacks in the seventh
grade and I started hanging around a crowd of readers. I've always
liked to read I just don't read well. Reading does not come easy to
me, reading never pass, but I still love the sensation of falling
into a book. I struggle to read but I find the process highly
rewarding. I went to school, grade school, on the college campus that
I graduated from. We were a training ground for potential teachers we
called them cadet teachers or student teachers. I often thought we
were the guinea pigs for a lot of educational things going on. I
worked a number of years in a program called SRA (Scholastic Reading
Achievement). This was a graduate of reading program that encouraged
the participant to increase speed at which they read as well as the
comprehension. I suppose it was a good program but it sure didn't
help me in my reading speed. Unless, I was so in and as a reader that
exposure to these reading principles levitated me at least to the
level where I am now.
In junior high I started
hanging with the group of guys that read. One of my best friends at
that time got me reading Ian Fleming novels i.e. James Bond 007. One
of my other friends turned me onto Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle
and Slaughter House 5. I loved
the convenience of having the book, the whole book, stuck in my back
pocket that went with me wherever I went. I was never alone and
always had something to do. I had something to look forward to and
that was reading, reading the paper back in my back pocket.
Paperback Writer was
released by the Beatles 1966, in June of that year. My accident was
in July so I have almost a month of listening to this song which
definitely had major impact on my life. I don't know why, perhaps my
mother was a big influence on my writing desire but I love playing
with the idea of someday being a writer. I wrote poetry because I
thought it was simpler than prose. A poem I could start and finish in
one sitting. A story or short story, not only did one have to write
but then one had a proofread afterwards proofing I found dreadfully
intimidating. I did not have the patience nor the skill sets to be a
good proofreader. I kind of wish I had had someone who has sat down
and drilled these writing skills into me. Only now, at this late
stage, I'm beginning to feel I can come to grips with proving and
rewrite. I don't know if I'll be able to totally pull it off but the
process does not freak me out as it had once done.
I love the whole song
PaperbackWriter, I love the concept of expanding the book just
because whoever the person is writing for wants more words or changed
one way or another. The writer is totally mercenary and I find that
totally intriguing. I want to be a writer someday and above all else
a paperback writer.
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