How do you begin a project that you feel is daunting?
This isn’t a rhetorical question or a prompt to help me begin writing. It’s a question to you, the person reading this.
How do you narrow down your ideas? How do you choose a template? How do you make final decisions? And before all of that, how and where do you begin?
I want to publish a book of tiny poems.
I have the poems, but I can’t quite envision the final product.
I know that I want to include black and white pictures, but how many should I include? Should there be one picture for every poem? If so, do the pictures need to be related to the poems? And how many poems do I want to include?
What kind of font do I want to use?
What kind of feel do I want the book to have?
Do I want it to be a digital book? A print-to-order book? A handmade zine with limited printings?
Hmmm …
How would you go about, or how have you gone about preparing and bringing a book to press?
(1)
swept away
once again
in your voice
(2)
a cool breeze and
everything my neighbors say
open windows
(3)
stacks of documents
piled high on a desk
the days of a life
(4)
a lone butterfly
the sky all to itself
where to go where to go
(5)
satellite dishes
blooming in the garden
pink hollyhocks
(6)
curtains billowing
an eerie light fills the room
just before it rains
(7)
on the school roof
two lost shuttlecocks
learning life’s lessons
As always, thank you for reading.