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Anthony Buccino
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A writer's life for meBy Anthony Buccino
A long, long
time ago, I decided I wanted to be a writer. I was still in
high school at the time. Writing looked like an easy life.
You type things. Someone pays you to publish what you wrote. How tough can that be? Now, that I've been writing full-time for more than two decades, I wonder where the time all went. Where is that novel I started in 1971? And the sequel? I recently came across some poems I wrote back in the day. My high school had a literary magazine. I was on the staff that chose what went in. All my stuff was rejected. Reading it now, I'm not surprised. But that rejection didn't stop me. I kicked a few trash cans and went back to my typewriter. With each draft my writing painstakingly grew better. I think it has. If it hadn't, you wouldn't have read this far, would you? And I've never run out of topics to write about. My favorite, however, is growing up in Belleville in the 1960s. Who knew, then, that it was so great? TV was black and white, gasoline was less than two-bits a gallon. We drank tap water and ate red M&Ms, and took deep, deep breaths running behind the 'mosquito man' spraying DDT to kill the tiny pests. Who knew, when I was a kid, that I could put down a few words and bring back to life the Brookdale soda delivery men? Or recall with amazing precision the pigeon coops where my father raised his homers. It took a life time, but I think a writer's life is more than I ever thought it would be. |
Where My Work Has Appeared
The Wall St Journal
Dow Jones Newswires NJ.Com - NJ Voices Patch.com Baristanet.com The Nutley Sun The Belleville Times The Independent Press of Bloomfield The Glen Ridge Paper The Nutley Journal The Belleville Post New Jersey Monthly Essex Journal Modern Food Service Magazine Paterson Literary Review, U.S. 1 Worksheets, Rattlesnake Review, Medusa's Kitchen, Voices In Italian Americana, Edison Literary Review, Journal of New Jersey Poets, CHEST, The Idiom, Fox Chase Review, Up & Under, Caduceus, South Mountain Poets Anthology, MEWS, LIPS, More Sweet Lemons, The Poem Factory, On The Quiet Side, PowWow Review and other places, too! |
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About Me I've been a writer and editor since 1984, having worked at a national and state trade association, a regional trade newspaper, community newspapers and a national business newswire. I've published three books of essays based in and around life and growing up in New Jersey over the past 50 years. You can find me on Facebook and Linkedin Copyright © 1995-2011 By Anthony Buccino. All
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