Started writing it two decades ago,77Please respect copyright.PENANAG1Vrgc5zSp
Using a pseudonym for first/last time,77Please respect copyright.PENANA7DsO2DcVK3
To protect the guilty and innocent,77Please respect copyright.PENANAAJvrn5H8QZ
In this autobiographical work.77Please respect copyright.PENANAOO0woX9MK3
77Please respect copyright.PENANAVIRfDSTa23
Life got in the way of reliving it,77Please respect copyright.PENANA1Y7jbAbgWp
Work, wife, parents with health issues, now gone,77Please respect copyright.PENANAyd2y9M6AWw
Back burners full of overflowing pots,77Please respect copyright.PENANAeiUtBahiXd
The sands of time quickly sifting through my fingers.77Please respect copyright.PENANAzhubvgsM7l
77Please respect copyright.PENANA143Z47tFB6
Serious writing projects completed,77Please respect copyright.PENANAFoyyvZdXDh
A dozen plus books published,77Please respect copyright.PENANAES9X2qQwcT
Others yet to come, new lectures to plan,77Please respect copyright.PENANAlfhq0GKFwQ
New courses to develop and to teach.77Please respect copyright.PENANAS6XWaLdd7K
77Please respect copyright.PENANAOw1EGdrK0Q
My story untold, lessons learned unfurled,77Please respect copyright.PENANANKiOML7FhG
But not not written down to pass down my truth,77Please respect copyright.PENANAvnnS4O9EmY
About things I know much more than I'd like,77Please respect copyright.PENANA1PYlYaVpLZ
And others should learn, in old age and youth.77Please respect copyright.PENANA0Dbulbsstf
77Please respect copyright.PENANAWyF1IsVf0Y
Place bound for now on an imposed lockdown,77Please respect copyright.PENANAZQJkl4y3ro
Chained to my desk like galley slaves to oars,77Please respect copyright.PENANAaGnMltbNcz
Taping lectures, attending Zoom meetings,77Please respect copyright.PENANAuGdjthgKGP
Depression abounds, if not joy or sleep.77Please respect copyright.PENANAaoN1ZMnPsM
77Please respect copyright.PENANAQoftm1idH9
So I'm back again, reliving the past,77Please respect copyright.PENANAzQ5VcHH2ks
In memory still green, though browning in parts,77Please respect copyright.PENANAV9IBri3iWO
Taking poetic license where I must,77Please respect copyright.PENANA8b8VrwJKL4
But gently as a child's butterfly kiss.77Please respect copyright.PENANADP6bOgSRfT
77Please respect copyright.PENANAEpWDz8cNTy
Nearly nine thousand words today for just,77Please respect copyright.PENANArOQITF5p7n
One day's events that sowed a thousand seeds,77Please respect copyright.PENANAlNgsT5b0rO
That sprouted, flourished and died or were pecked,77Please respect copyright.PENANA1VlwwqHTtS
By hungry vultures out of existence.77Please respect copyright.PENANADrTDCGhakW
77Please respect copyright.PENANA9yIa5oE8Gj
Remembering a day in my career,77Please respect copyright.PENANAWnbxR4N2Eo
When I still viewed the world with bright, clear eyes,77Please respect copyright.PENANADN0XtU9SNw
And had not opened doors I could not close,77Please respect copyright.PENANAbv5jZKJgvC
Or walked by closed doors I should have opened.77Please respect copyright.PENANAsG5KvkKEh1
77Please respect copyright.PENANAMXu1pbLRjX
My world and heart were then innocent, pure,77Please respect copyright.PENANAVbc8zDH34B
Full of good intentions waiting to burst,77Please respect copyright.PENANAc2gyM5IDuu
From a chest that could hardly hold them back,77Please respect copyright.PENANAeYGV9S1GwZ
Foolishly thinking they could change the world.77Please respect copyright.PENANAe1PUBBvEDy
77Please respect copyright.PENANADYwzP8OLkn
The painful memories I now drown in,77Please respect copyright.PENANAndDAsAdB8X
I will not disclose. The pain I've given,77Please respect copyright.PENANA0NRY1lQ3Y0
The pain I've received, I'll whitewash away,77Please respect copyright.PENANA1crRXjr8R9
To protect myself and those I have loved.77Please respect copyright.PENANAN3G1pEIiGT
77Please respect copyright.PENANAPT0tdTWXkk
I'll limit my journey to work alone,77Please respect copyright.PENANAl8I8gwDHpd
Describe what I've learned that others should know,77Please respect copyright.PENANA6fTayWg7HO
Weave the personal with transparent thread,77Please respect copyright.PENANAbrJDpqiKaR
The professional with thickest red yarn.77Please respect copyright.PENANAV1m8sPBeF6
77Please respect copyright.PENANATUxMZMSXjS
I'll search for an agent when it is done,77Please respect copyright.PENANA0nhmKlZQtR
As I'd like it read, unlike indie books,77Please respect copyright.PENANALJSXhTmUWt
And I believe it will find a market,77Please respect copyright.PENANAYyah1jIm3v
For it will reveal some essential truths.77Please respect copyright.PENANAq6gYI79HCn
77Please respect copyright.PENANAdNJCF5Ypce
It will teach much more that all need to know,77Please respect copyright.PENANAvpR2qIMd18
Than my life's work: Lectures, books, articles,77Please respect copyright.PENANAC98IW4yUlH
Poetry, fiction, blogs, presentations,77Please respect copyright.PENANAnEDckA2sBG
Hope I can write it before my life ends.77Please respect copyright.PENANAFWe8GVvdFR
77Please respect copyright.PENANAwulLpSqa2g
My sand's running out, tick tock cries the clock,77Please respect copyright.PENANAH89nFXYdqg
Hope lockdown provides, end to writer's block.77Please respect copyright.PENANAU3yvWg3hkd
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Victor D. Lopez

ISSUE #7
On Writing My First Novel (poem)
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Last updated: May 25, 2025
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Total reading time: 10 Minutes
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