I have a number of thoughts in the pipeline but they still need a bit of work.
However, Derrick and Tootlepedal have both fallen into my trap and asked for more details of what I turned up when I searched myself on Google. They both come up with their blogs when you Google them. I don’t, because I started the blog for the Quercus Community group and, eventually, I became Quercus.
I can now provide details without looking like a blatant self-publicist or an egomaniac.
My real name is Simon Wilson, but both names are so common that if you Google me I don’t get a look in. There are just so many notable people with my name that I’m frozen out, which is slightly annoying as I’ve had for longer than most of them.
Trees at day’s end
Anyway, here are the links to me.
Here, here, here, here and here. And here. There were more than I thought.
There’s also a link to one of my blog posts, but though I’ve talked of haibun on the blog several times, and even published a couple, Google doesn’t seem to pick them up. The blog post has a link to a haiku that wasn’t picked up by Google.
There is also a book review for a book of haibun and other short poems by Xenia Tran, better known on WordPress as Whippet Wisdom. It’s not much of a review but if Goggle can be bothered to note it, it would be rude not to share the link.
According to the blog, I had nine acceptances, but could only find six by using Google. I can’t look them up by name because I’ve forgotten what they were. Somewhere I have a display book with them all in, but I haven’t seen that for a while now I come to think about it.
It’s not an ego thing – I don’t feel the need to print it all out and make a book of it. I just do it because when you get a rejection it’s easy to take the book off the shelf and remind yourself that you have been a success and will be again. Well, it’s easy to take the book off the shelf if you can remember which shelf.
One rejection, or even several in a row, only means you’re in a temporary dip.
Form, as any coach will tell you, is temporary, but class will last for ever.
A Figure in the Fog