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Electric Sister

Electric Sister

I am Katie, the new girl. I reside in England.

Loved Bukowski for many years now. I am also a part-time writer myself, I say that because I have a job - yeah we all got to work. My writing is influenced by the people I see, the conversations I hear and my person life experiences with family, friends, men and women. Good, bad and ugly.

I was introduced to Bukowski many years ago, the first book I read was Women and I was blown away by his style of writing, his honesty and the details in which he described each encounter. I fell in love...

I look forward to posting.
 
Gerard K H Love

Gerard K H Love

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Welcome, Katie E S. You may have noticed we have a Carol E S here too. She's a very prominent member here who wields great power and influence - mostly because she sleeps with the boss but that is the real power in the world.
 
Rekrab

Rekrab

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Hey -- a little respect! That's John Fante's Laughing Dog. Can't you tell from the bow tie?

Welcome, Katie. I write and work, too. Both for far too many years. It's difficult to quit either one. Old habits die hard.
 
number6horse

number6horse

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Have you ever been/To electric ladyland... (That's the song that popped in my head just now, ES.)

Welcome aboard ! Have you tried the poetry yet ?
 
Electric Sister

Electric Sister

I work in a place where we deal with people in crisis - health, childcare, homes etc but weirdly they are not the ones I draw inspiration from, it is usually the people I work with in the office who are just odd people haha
 
Rekrab

Rekrab

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Lots of built in drama at that job, even it you just use it for back ground. I've written stuff based on work, although once you've covered a certain set of characters, a certain job, there's a danger of repeating yourself. I wrote a bunch of angry work poems during a period of five years or so, but I intentionally stopped. How many times can I get away with saying someone I work with is a jackass, or that boss over there is a monster? Bukowski went through many little jobs, which gave him a constant stream of fresh scenes, strange new situations. Factotum draws on that if I recall (years since I read it). Post Office taps into his longer term, more settled job, his "career" of sorts. Both great novels of work.
 
Electric Sister

Electric Sister

As disruptive as it is I am quite lucky because I get moved every few months because I am on temp contracts, so I am also getting fresh inspiration.
 
Rekrab

Rekrab

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Lucky you. I worked 30 years and counting at one job, so the writing possibilities were soon exhausted. However, I recently had a part time job for a year and a half at a bookshop, and that's given me material for the novel I'm now writing. It was so different from the work I'd been doing all my life. Minimum wage, but great experiences at that shop.
 
Rekrab

Rekrab

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It was lots of fun, and things happened that would never happen at my office job in a million years. The conversations are wilder, the customers are stranger, plus all that book talk, looking at books, handling books. I loved it, but I worked hard. I was cataloging rare /out of print books for online listing. I never had enough time to actually read anything, just looked them over enough to accurately describe them. A few truly bizarre things happened, and I'm using some of that in my writing. The job felt like I was walking around inside a Richard Brautigan story. The office job was like being in a dark Russian novel, grim realism.
 
Rekrab

Rekrab

Usually wrong.
The smell is the best part. What was sick is that I would work like a demon all day Saturdays, cataloging books, and then on my breaks I would walk around the store, looking at other books. The job would have been ideal if I allowed myself to work slower, read more, look at the pictures, but I had this crazy sense of duty, like I had to earn my minimum wage.

Many people want to work in a bookstore. What helps you get a job like that is to come in knowing a lot about books, having experience with them. But there are always more applicants than jobs, especially now with this death spiral economy.
 
zenguru

zenguru

Hello, Katie. Welcome! I've been reading Buk since about 2003. I absolutely love his poetry. I think Women is his best novel.

Do you ever do any writing in cafes? I love observing people in the local eateries and coffee shops.
 
Electric Sister

Electric Sister

zenguru said:
Hello, Katie. Welcome! I've been reading Buk since about 2003. I absolutely love his poetry. I think Women is his best novel.

Do you ever do any writing in cafes? I love observing people in the local eateries and coffee shops.
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Women is my favourite by far!!

Writing in cafes? I used to do it a lot and loved observing people, I tend to carry a notebook and jot down observations (due to my job I don't get the time to sit before work) and then I write mostly at weekends.

Rekrab said:
The smell is the best part. What was sick is that I would work like a demon all day Saturdays, cataloging books, and then on my breaks I would walk around the store, looking at other books. The job would have been ideal if I allowed myself to work slower, read more, look at the pictures, but I had this crazy sense of duty, like I had to earn my minimum wage.

Many people want to work in a bookstore. What helps you get a job like that is to come in knowing a lot about books, having experience with them. But there are always more applicants than jobs, especially now with this death spiral economy.
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more applicants than jobs..oh don't I know it.
 
Rekrab

Rekrab

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...And, like most jobs, in some cases people get hired for reasons other than knowledge of books and ability to do the job.
 
Electric Sister

Electric Sister

The lack of enthusiasm for books from some of the people working in book shops is shocking, they hate being there...hey why not get yourself to another job and have someone there who really does give a shit about literature?? Get your Twilight wearing t-shirt ass out of here and let me in damn you!

*wipes her brow*

Sorry about that folks...
 
Rekrab

Rekrab

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I hear at Borders (soon to be extinct) the management refer to books as "product."

There's a really funny British TV series about a bookshop, called "Black Books." The proprietor drinks like a fish, chain smokes, and chases customers out of his shop. But he does read. It's several years old. Three seasons, on DVD.
 
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This has gone on long enough you two. Get a room.
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Don't worry, Rekrab, we are hush-hush around here. Post pics, though, or the hush is off.
 
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