“Pull Over”

While driving, I always keep a notebook close by. I never know when a line, a phrase or an idea will come to me.

I often get up in the middle of the night to write. It is either a thought that comes to me in a dream or something I can’t forget. Or otherwise, I will be filled with regret.

My own genre is 90 percent verse poetry. Yet, unlike more creative writers here on the prose; my writing is either what I am seeing in the world, or an experience that I have had, and then I fictionalize.

Sometimes the editing can take longer than the write itself. Sometimes I have a story and no title or a title and no story.

I ‘always’ have more than one version of the same title.

I lack when it comes to pure fiction. Therefore, I am working on that. The prose has helped me a lot. I never used to write dark or remotely sensual, but the challenges have taken me places I never knew.

With much help and encouragement from prose mentors. Some, younger and some older than myself.

Writing for over 3 decades, and I am still learning.

“Every piece, I feel as though I concieved alone and gave birth to.”

The above quote is from my story “One Of My Own”

As exiting as it was, selling the copyright to one of my own poems to an independent film maker, it was also extremely difficult for me.

I felt like I was giving up one of my own children. If that sounds ridiculous to anyone? That is ok.

These writes are extensions of myself. Yes! Of course I want to share and I will continue to do that, but it was a very wise Mr. @Danceinsilence, here on the prose that said to me, “Benz, it sounds like “Dreaded Fall” is where it needs to be.” He was right:)

I hope this helps you in someway-

Thank you for asking :)

Benz