It’s Quadrille Monday over at the dVerse Poets Pub. This time our word prompt is some form of the word “blue.”
The Blues won’t last,
they tell me, this too
shall pass, and soon
sunshine’ll sneak itself through.
What do they know?
Nothin.’
‘Cause they don’t know you.
If they did, they’d know
(just like I do) that this time
The Blues ain’t
goin’ no-damn-where.
I’m just doing short stories now, they wont go into a book either. I did that with my Compendium of Characters and it sold very few copies. No sense spending and losing money I don’t have on further publications. For me, the only reason I continue to write is because I cant switch of the creativity – if I try I get as miserable as hell, lol
Sorry to hear. At least you got publishers interested! I can’t even do that. I self-published my books on CreateSpace/Amazon Kindle. It’s basically free; I just pay a guy in Australia $120.00 to format the manuscripts. They did okay, but like you I don’t have the $$$ to market them properly. What is your book about?
I have a 20 book mystery series about a head waitress turn skeauth thanks to her detective grandfather.
I need edits, illustrations, formats, covers drawn. I need 2k a book 40k to be successful. It just wobt ever happen.
Wow. Twenty books! I’ll bet it’s awesome. What kind of editing do you need? For images I either took pix of whatever myself or used what I could find online and credited the owner. In any case, it sucks you got screwed over by publishers.
I need editing where the editor just does punctuation and grammer. I’ve
I’ve decided if I ever try again it will be if I can get everything made proper with real hand drawn cocwrs and such as I imagine them.
Publisher one stole the book. Two ruined it. Three held it to ransom. Real decent publishers dont exist anymore sadly.
I hope you don’t give up on it. It’s a shame honest publishers are so hard to come by.
Same here. Seems like I spend more time in the Blues than anywhere else.
I wrote a large series and its useless thats the source of my blues.
Why do you say it’s useless?
It’ll never be published. I got screwed by three publishers. A forth will never get the opportunity.
To self-publish properly and sell a few books I need more money than a I’ll ever have.
So its unpublishable and useless.
Nicely done! I have lots of blues through being a failure. They always lift but come right back again.
Patience
For Blues
Love’s
Dream True..:)
Definitely bluesy. Well done.
Thank you!
A good example of platitudes not necessarily being right! Good one :)
Thanks, Jane!
:)
Stuck in the blues, now why does that feel familiar
Much💙love
Thank you gillena!
Nice take on the prompt.
Thanks so much, Arcadia Maria.
Yep. Sometimes those blues are hard to shake. Good luck with that.
Yep! Thanks, I’ll need it. :-)
I love the blues vernacular you used here. With certain people you know the blues is here to stay.
Ain’t it the truth? ;-)
:)
This has a wonderful rhythm that I could feel reverberate.
Thanks, marialberg!
O”If they did, they’d know
(just like I do) that this time
The Blues ain’t
goin’ no-damn-where.” So real, so lyrical and down to earth!
Thank you, Victoria. Much appreciated!
Awesome write! So much attitude for only 44 little words.
Thanks so much, Linda!
I love the bluesy feel to this one, Susan :) especially; “sunshine’ll sneak itself through.”
Thanks so much, sanaarizvi. This one just kind of wrote itself.
Alas, another foray into the “blues”. I like the transition from pollyanna to hardball. Your piece could be sung.
Thanks, Glenn. I always wondered how songwriters manage to write songs… Nice compliment!
Unfortunately, this feels true. I like the way you wrote it. :)
Yep, it’s true alright. Glad you enjoyed it, revived writer!
It’s like that sometimes, the Blues! Well done!
Thanks, Frank! :-)
Sometimes it feels like it is not going anywhere. Here is a little bit of sunshine coming your way, smiles.
Thanks, Grace!
A very bluesy quadrille, Susan! I especially like the line ‘sunshine’ll sneak itself through’ – I always hope it will, but more often than not it doesn’t..
Whatcha think?