Text Tuesdays – Blue Lines Poetry from the Manuscript

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An unnamed poem that Blue Hurt wrote to Keypsiia Walker in my manuscript Blue Lines.

the splendid shine of all human matters of love
changes the lonely melody of sharp hearts play
like a piece of beauty that crashes unusually against calm nothingness

a piece of beauty exists in the icy tears that
grow to a cry aloud with perfect power

Text Tuesdays – 2013 Summer Reading List

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A Painted House, ALA, Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography, Authors, Being and Nothingness, Blue Hurt, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, Books, Boss of Bosses - Joseph F. O'Brien & Andris Kurins, Charles L. Sargent, Che Guevera: A Revolutionary Life, Civil War, Cuba, Deal Breaker: The First Myron Bolitar Novel, Dutch III - Teri Woods, Harlen Coben, Huey P. Newton, Hunter S. Thompson, J. R. R. Tolkien, Jack Kerouac, Jean-Paul Sartre, John Grisham, Jon Lee Anderson, Key Yemaya Walker, manuscript, Michelle Alexander, On The Road, Pursuit of Honor - Vince Flynn, Read, Reading, Revolutionary Suicide, School, Shock Wave - John Sandford, Sins of Henry County, Stephen King, Stieg Larsson, Summer, Summer Reading List, Term Limits - Vince Flynn, Text Tuesdays, The Art of War - Sun Tzu, The Coldest Winter Ever - Sister Souljah, The Confession, The Dark Tower: The Dark Tower VII, The Devil's Code - John Sanford, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, The Girl Who Played With Fire, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Hades Factor - Robert Ludlum, The Hobbit, The New Jim Crow, The Rum Diary, The Titans - John Jakes, The Warriors - John Jakes, The Wind Through the Keyhole, True to the Game III - Teri Woods, Whispers - Dean Koontz

It’s about that time of the year when we would leave school, but be provided with our summer reading to have read by returning to school. If I began a book, I finished it…not the best choice in some cases.

The following are my reads for 2013. My 2013 Reading list:

A Painted House – John Grisham

The Confession – John Grisham

Blue Lines Blog – Questions for the Author of Blue Lines Part III (Finale)

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In recent readings, I read Sister Souljah’s The Coldest Winter Ever, and chose to answer the questions she offerered at the close of her novel. Over the coming weeks, I will offer my answers to her questions (some tailored to address my manuscript) in respect to work, Blue Lines. These questions were answered some time ago, earlier this year. I am providing them in that form.

1. Why did you choose to focus on your book subject?
2. Is Blue Lines a true story?
3. How did you write the story so authentically?
4. Did you, and if so, why did you decide to include yourself as a character?
5. Where we’re you when you first started writing Blue Lines?
6. Which character did you create first?
7. How did you write the manuscript, what method?
8. Why aren’t all of your characters Black?
9. What were you trying to achieve with the novel Blue Lines?
10. Will there be a sequel novel?

8. Why aren’t all of your characters Black?

Blue Lines Blog – Questions for the Author of Blue Lines Part II

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In recent readings, I read Sister Souljah’s The Coldest Winter Ever, and chose to answer the questions she offerered at the close of her novel. Over the coming weeks, I will offer my answers to her questions (some tailored to address my manuscript) in respect to work, Blue Lines. These questions were answered some time ago, earlier this year. I am providing them in that form.

1. Why did you choose to focus on your book subject?
2. Is Blue Lines a true story?
3. How did you write the story so authentically?
4. Did you, and if so, why did you decide to include yourself as a character?
5. Where we’re you when you first started writing Blue Lines?
6. Which character did you create first?
7. How did you write the manuscript, what method?
8. Why aren’t all of your characters Black?
9. What were you trying to achieve with the novel Blue Lines?
10. Will there be a sequel novel?

6. Which character did you create first?

Blue Lines Blog – Questions for the Author of Blue Lines Part I

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In recent readings, I read Sister Souljah’s The Coldest Winter Ever, and chose to answer the questions she offerered at the close of her novel. Over the coming weeks, I will offer my answers to her questions (some tailored to address my manuscript) in respect to work, Blue Lines. These questions were answered some time ago, earlier this year. I am providing them in that form.

1. Why did you choose to focus on your book subject?
2. Is Blue Lines a true story?
3. How did you write the story so authentically?
4. Did you, and if so, why did you decide to include yourself as a character?
5. Where we’re you when you first started writing Blue Lines?
6. Which character did you create first?
7. How did you write the manuscript, what method?
8. Why aren’t all of your characters Black?
9. What were you trying to achieve with the novel Blue Lines?
10. Will there be a sequel novel?

1. Why did you choose to focus on your book subject?

Around 1995-96 I had wanted to write a work that centered on Hip-Hop music, a love for Hip-Hop and wanted to build that as the backdrop with a love story between a young aspiring artist and the woman he sought and loved, using them as the metaphor of the larger underlying story. With the time periods music ranging from the current Notorious B.I.G., Jay-Z, Nas and Common, and echoing back to the Golden Age of A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, and post artists like Wu-Tang Clan, I wanted to you h the 90’s elements in relation to the story’s timeframe. Over the next few years, I developed only five pages of sparse content with space to fill in a story. Honestly, I did not “feel” or have a connection that compelled me to write. Though I wanted to write a book and loved Hip-Hop culture. I wanted to create a valid and quality narrative that would speak to readers beyond a specific genre and target audience. I wanted a well written project that conveyed a universal story.

Foto Fridays – Coit Tower circa 2007 – Blue Lines Travel Research

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The manuscript Blue Lines is the fictional coming of age narrative of a young California woman Key Yemaya Walker, and her 2 year growing journey through school, love, and life period piece, written by Kenneth Suffern, Jr., taking place at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill between the years of 1997 – 1998. Loosely based on true events, and experiences during that time, told through the eyes and voice of the main female protagonist, a freshman first attending the school

Text Tuesdays – Prose – “Unrestrained (edited)” omitted from the manuscript Blue Lines

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“Unrestrained” omitted from Blue Lines
K.S. 5/20/2000

your eyes were the first thing I saw
slanted and your gaze hazed
braids and your continued stares intrigued me
then you pressed
death and pain left my heart chained
but you hid your pain
your soft voice and sudden stares
your heart became aware, but like that you were gone

you entered again
blind gazes took you past
until you realized who I was
the meaning I gave you
and the joy I brought your heart
we stood to talk for hours
black & mild within grasp
gone from my life was sorrow
for you I should take that chance

Blue Lines Blog – #PhotoADayAug – Day 6 – Writing – Blue Lines Notes

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The manuscript Blue Lines is the fictional coming of age narrative of a young California woman Key Yemaya Walker, and her 2 year growing journey through school, love, and life period piece, written by Kenneth Suffern, Jr., taking place at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill between the years of 1997 – 1998. Loosely based on true events, and experiences during that time, told through the eyes and voice of the main female protagonist, a freshman first attending the school.

Foto Fridays – Berkeley circa 2006

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The manuscript Blue Lines is the fictional coming of age narrative of a young California woman Key Yemaya Walker, and her 2 year growing journey through school, love, and life period piece, written by Kenneth Suffern, Jr., taking place at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill between the years of 1997 – 1998. Loosely based on true events, and experiences during that time, told through the eyes and voice of the main female protagonist, a freshman first attending the school.

Text Tuesdays – Blue Lines Prose – IF

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Older post from my manuscript Blue Lines, blank mind today.

“IF”
K.S. circa 1999
…If I told you that I loved you,
could you love me back, do you love,
If I told you that I loved you,
what would it mean to you, what would it be
If I told you that I loved you
would I know who you are would you know me,
I don’t want to lose what we have,
or is it that I want something for us to have,
If I told you that I loved you,
would it destroy ‘us.’

The manuscript Blue Lines is the fictional coming of age narrative of a young California woman Key Yemaya Walker, and her 2 year growing journey through school, love, and life period piece, written by Kenneth Suffern, Jr., taking place at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill between the years of 1997 – 1998. Loosely based on true events, and experiences during that time, told through the eyes and voice of the main female protagonist, a freshman first attending the school.