Started writing it two decades ago,83Please respect copyright.PENANA3zlA3YxAYT
Using a pseudonym for first/last time,83Please respect copyright.PENANAm0bQKBBGbj
To protect the guilty and innocent,83Please respect copyright.PENANA3UwZZN21OH
In this autobiographical work.83Please respect copyright.PENANAKN6dLY2b0C
83Please respect copyright.PENANAot0OfR7LDf
Life got in the way of reliving it,83Please respect copyright.PENANA2CGNcuP5ye
Work, wife, parents with health issues, now gone,83Please respect copyright.PENANAZgmCuBwr4P
Back burners full of overflowing pots,83Please respect copyright.PENANAe6kdIntRyM
The sands of time quickly sifting through my fingers.83Please respect copyright.PENANAMpuf1fZrey
83Please respect copyright.PENANAlcm0nbYOrR
Serious writing projects completed,83Please respect copyright.PENANAU1aYfJKuKi
A dozen plus books published,83Please respect copyright.PENANAgCIFt1qWdz
Others yet to come, new lectures to plan,83Please respect copyright.PENANAcb5T7qgspw
New courses to develop and to teach.83Please respect copyright.PENANAyZqWCJORrH
83Please respect copyright.PENANAmvjl3iV4tP
My story untold, lessons learned unfurled,83Please respect copyright.PENANAV3Kc7G1btd
But not not written down to pass down my truth,83Please respect copyright.PENANAvgyjaITlHg
About things I know much more than I'd like,83Please respect copyright.PENANAXhl8VGG9pK
And others should learn, in old age and youth.83Please respect copyright.PENANA2SXbBnLmCz
83Please respect copyright.PENANAQGezpjsWz2
Place bound for now on an imposed lockdown,83Please respect copyright.PENANAdKOMxZhHMi
Chained to my desk like galley slaves to oars,83Please respect copyright.PENANAuUXfHEqS7e
Taping lectures, attending Zoom meetings,83Please respect copyright.PENANAmLsANBB9u5
Depression abounds, if not joy or sleep.83Please respect copyright.PENANAF7tSSZpGZm
83Please respect copyright.PENANAcqbJ47Dn2F
So I'm back again, reliving the past,83Please respect copyright.PENANAq9V4j3O5U3
In memory still green, though browning in parts,83Please respect copyright.PENANA97lTKc43Lv
Taking poetic license where I must,83Please respect copyright.PENANApxD0hefzdY
But gently as a child's butterfly kiss.83Please respect copyright.PENANAejgG1dTPPp
83Please respect copyright.PENANAQAZzNmW6gE
Nearly nine thousand words today for just,83Please respect copyright.PENANAKa43RTNDvR
One day's events that sowed a thousand seeds,83Please respect copyright.PENANAkreQ7IwTUc
That sprouted, flourished and died or were pecked,83Please respect copyright.PENANA64hS1ZREn6
By hungry vultures out of existence.83Please respect copyright.PENANANQJbKj9fT4
83Please respect copyright.PENANAWdiLf4w9sW
Remembering a day in my career,83Please respect copyright.PENANAIWWKv41isS
When I still viewed the world with bright, clear eyes,83Please respect copyright.PENANAtTALLvbzpM
And had not opened doors I could not close,83Please respect copyright.PENANAKWFrahst68
Or walked by closed doors I should have opened.83Please respect copyright.PENANApeDaEyuoT5
83Please respect copyright.PENANAfcNpgrQzlB
My world and heart were then innocent, pure,83Please respect copyright.PENANA5nrTkDfdMR
Full of good intentions waiting to burst,83Please respect copyright.PENANAPeYV2Oc0Ax
From a chest that could hardly hold them back,83Please respect copyright.PENANAqwMbVRfh5V
Foolishly thinking they could change the world.83Please respect copyright.PENANAg4IXDwt7J6
83Please respect copyright.PENANAe94gmx9QuG
The painful memories I now drown in,83Please respect copyright.PENANA8dtJClfDKZ
I will not disclose. The pain I've given,83Please respect copyright.PENANAfUo8M0PY0D
The pain I've received, I'll whitewash away,83Please respect copyright.PENANAsIJkYO2HZs
To protect myself and those I have loved.83Please respect copyright.PENANAJMVNfQdRsi
83Please respect copyright.PENANAzh63lq42X0
I'll limit my journey to work alone,83Please respect copyright.PENANAbPjRECn66O
Describe what I've learned that others should know,83Please respect copyright.PENANAt07XXEm7BZ
Weave the personal with transparent thread,83Please respect copyright.PENANAesAV1Iu2jk
The professional with thickest red yarn.83Please respect copyright.PENANAuioSY3Kba6
83Please respect copyright.PENANAGnaidkLOO6
I'll search for an agent when it is done,83Please respect copyright.PENANADuTQjGebYq
As I'd like it read, unlike indie books,83Please respect copyright.PENANAJfTKTqtc7b
And I believe it will find a market,83Please respect copyright.PENANA9yRJCH6WRq
For it will reveal some essential truths.83Please respect copyright.PENANAuw8jlwmKjI
83Please respect copyright.PENANAObDrvhfsgN
It will teach much more that all need to know,83Please respect copyright.PENANAyCCgQtOEbn
Than my life's work: Lectures, books, articles,83Please respect copyright.PENANANi4OLORY3d
Poetry, fiction, blogs, presentations,83Please respect copyright.PENANAG7zeLQtUIf
Hope I can write it before my life ends.83Please respect copyright.PENANANNjphK83dU
83Please respect copyright.PENANAS76TYgEsTv
My sand's running out, tick tock cries the clock,83Please respect copyright.PENANA1lY3SDYoU5
Hope lockdown provides, end to writer's block.83Please respect copyright.PENANApvXVxghqxa
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Victor D. Lopez

ISSUE #7
On Writing My First Novel (poem)
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Last updated: May 29, 2025
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