OCD’s a bitch! I like the idea of putting my poetry in a book and when one of my mentors (Dawn Pisturino) suggested it I was ecstatic about the idea and jumped in with all four paws.

I have been grading my failures along with successes on a scale that evidently is a super easy grade scale to pass and move to the next chapter of this journey. Well today I got called into the administration office and was given a serious wake-up call resulting in a failing grade and termination of contract about the size of the book I am trying to create.

I am happy with most of what I have accomplished and this set back does have positive points but the ass chewing I received from myself as I sat in that dunce chair was a revelation of both failure and instruction.

After countless hours, days, months of thinking I was getting it down and excited to being jamming into this new direction of life, I find I over did it like a hungry dawg at an unsupervised buffet event.

So as I left that ass chewing and reflected on this situation I’m facing while relaxing over a treat of coffee I come to the conclusion that the ink and pen need to be laid down for a hot minute.

Like anything I enjoy doing in this dawgs journey I went to excess and now the task of rethinking how to best make this look like something that can be acceptable to the public is upon me.

By excess I mean that most poetry books average 80 – 100 pages with up to 100 poems in them. My book weighed in at 180 pages with almost the same amount of poems. My over zealous imagination had me writing a book the size of a nascar while the market I’m aiming for is more like the midget series.

So as I go back to the drawing board of ‘Do it right’ I now understand that this setback will be a giant step in the right direction after I split it down and re-organize the poems into two books, which will demand that I come up with new book covers and titles for both. This will be both exciting and confusing as I recall what Dawn told me in the first baby steps I took.

“Go slow, take your time and do it right” Thanx Dawn for the great advice.

There is no sympathy needed for this mistake, only the consolation of knowing it will take me longer than expected but the end result is going to be worth it times two.

Another question was answered in that discussion this morning, I will buy the ten pack of ISBN’s and sit on them.

And the journey continues.

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