pen ink river

This about writing and perfection (among other things) uttered by Leonard Cohen in the course of the recent film about him, I'm Your Man:

"If it is your destiny to be this laborer called a writer, you've got to go to work everyday. But you also know you're not going to get it every day. You have to be prepared but you really don't command the enterprise. Sometimes when you no longer see yourself as a hero of your own drama, expecting victory after victory, then you understand deeply that this is not paradise, and somehow we're—especially the privileged ones—we somehow embrace the notion that this veil of tears, that it's not perfectable, that you're going to get it all straight. I've found that things became a lot easier when I no longer expected to win."

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Decisions come quickly to me it often seems.

Actually, I've been thinking about this one for a while. Even talked to a friend about the idea of starting a small press to see if she would help with her expert designer skills. And yesterday, I took the first plunge. I bought the domain name, inkriverpress.org, with the idea that, if (more likely, when) my chapbook is rejected from all the various competitions it's currently entered in, we will design and print copies ourselves under the Ink River Press imprint! Surely, it can't be rocket science. These days, everyone and their second cousins, ex-lovers, and extra-terrestrial twins are writers, bloggers, and publishers of some ilk through blogspot, YouTube, MySpace, etc. So why not us? Hell, from our past lives, we know about fonts and colophons and en and em dashes. About PDFs and PhotoShop and Dreamweaver. About html and metatags and search engines. Between the two of us, we have always done gorgeous, class-act work. My web site is a case in point: How many compliments have I received about it?

So, dipping out toes into the inky, flowing river with a web site and a book or two. Maybe a few wacky calendars. This will be fun.

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