Tools of the trade. I work between Moleskin Sketch Pad, My Moleskin Note book and lil back pocket pad, and my Mac That is all you need to know, lets go.

Tools of the trade.

So… I am into the magical realist style of thinking and ways of thought. Most time, I have one foot on earth, the other tweaking out on Saturn and I try to give birth in this position. I like to freestyle with words and see what my subconscious throws up. On a train hurtling back from a week long writers residency in Scotland, I started thinking about who would have loved the experience and the name the bubbled to mind was ‘Jay Bernard’ – a friend and poet, and remembered something she said that tickled me. She said she liked her birthday, March 4th, that it called for action…

And earlier in the day, I considered a world without black music and the shudder that travelled my spine ended with an image I penned into my back-pocket pad… “it is blasphemous as the blues played backwards, reversed, un-invented, trapped in the fingernail of a field hand, so straight jacketed, so stitched, he won’t twitch for shit..”

I want to put the ideas together.
I have a character, a blues-playing field hand.
A Starting point:

‘My friend Jay likes her birthday
she says it’s a call to action: March 4th’

Tune in tomorrow for the update.
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