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Since I’ve been busy not paying attention to this blog, I have progressed beyond Writing the Bones, my previous segment on the writing of my 1st conceptual verse novel. The skeleton is solidly formed and now it’s time to put meat on the bones, so to speak. The next segment, in my progression, will be…
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. . . the Second of October, about 9 of the clock in the morning, Mr. Mavericks Negro woman came to my chamber window, and in her own Countrey language and tune sang very loud and shrill, going out to her, she used a great deal of respect toward me, and willingly would have expressed…
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Writing a novel is harder than I ever conceived! I’ve written and published books of three books of poetry but those books are full of personal poetry arranged chronologically. They’re linear rather than a cohesive whole like a novel. When I first got the idea of writing a novel, I spent years typing down whatever…
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Which books have been important in your life? And how did you, the son of a peasant, get to write one in the Kenya of the ’60s? While growing up, we had no books in Gĩkũyũ, my mother tongue. The Bible’s Old Testament became my book of stories. In high school, when I saw a…
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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and I be holding beauty when I glance upon them theoretically shaping the future into an afro centric sharpness that shook the white power structure into confronting black consciousness organized and mandated to dismiss that old time religion that said everything in its place especially the black…
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I am currently finishing up the research phase for my 4th book and I came across this quote from George Washington: “For my own part, I shall not undertake to say where the Line between Great Britain and the Colonies should be drawn, but I am clearly of opinion that one ought to be drawn;…
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The crisis is arrived when we must assert our rights, or submit to every imposition, that can be heaped upon us, till custom and use shall make us as tame and abject slaves, as the blacks we rule over with such arbitrary sway. – George Washington Slave prettily pretending on the promenade. A…
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(Originally posted on my book review blog, Diary of a Mad Reader) I am someone who reads books that break my heart, time and time again. The Book of Night Women broke my heart. Apparently, A Brief History of Seven Killings, which I’m 14 pages away from finishing, is going to do the same. And…
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i. discordant never/ polyrhythmic like life we were/ in the beginning/ many feet make many sounds we took the tree and made it talk/ a jungle of sounds we produced everyone for miles around heard it gravitated towards it then strangers came chanting like gregor tolling the bell like igor creating a cacophony a frankenstein…
Tichaona Chinyelu 
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