08-24-2021, 10:24 PM
You know, I pitched that to YMAA, although there was this theme about aging or being a career martial artist. I've been kicking around this idea for a piece for KFM titled 'My last Tornado kick' and it's blossomed into something much larger... or festered. But YMAA didn't bite at it. I need to hone my elevator pitch on this.
I'm an essayist. After writing 1000-3000 word articles for 30 years, that's what I do best. I'm not confident I can sustain a longer form prose.
I started three books when the pandemic struck. One was 'Covering the Masters' which would collate all my KFTC cover stories and add BTS comments on them. Another was 'Versus' - a series of 18 essays about martial arts using a yin yang motif of incongruous concepts. The third was another flailing attempt to capture the Rock/JAH Med experience. I kept a correspondence between a dearly departed friend and Rm accomplice for years. We shared so many tales. I thought of tooling that into a book, themed on the correspondence where the names were all hidden to protect the guilty. I didn't get far on that. I got nearly halfway through Versus until the hammer fell on the mag. Now I'm writing so goddamned much I can't think past my next deadline. My 2nd book may never happen.
I'm an essayist. After writing 1000-3000 word articles for 30 years, that's what I do best. I'm not confident I can sustain a longer form prose.
I started three books when the pandemic struck. One was 'Covering the Masters' which would collate all my KFTC cover stories and add BTS comments on them. Another was 'Versus' - a series of 18 essays about martial arts using a yin yang motif of incongruous concepts. The third was another flailing attempt to capture the Rock/JAH Med experience. I kept a correspondence between a dearly departed friend and Rm accomplice for years. We shared so many tales. I thought of tooling that into a book, themed on the correspondence where the names were all hidden to protect the guilty. I didn't get far on that. I got nearly halfway through Versus until the hammer fell on the mag. Now I'm writing so goddamned much I can't think past my next deadline. My 2nd book may never happen.
Shadow boxing the apocalypse