WIRED - Anastasia Suen

Writing a Small Poem

What is the story? All of the storms we’ve been having make me think about power outages . . . and my small poem Wired.

I wrote this 53 word poem after seeing miles and miles of transmission towers on a drive from Los Angeles to San Francisco. The editor wanted more details about each step of the process, so there are prose sidebars as well.

This is another book that I sold and then revised over and over and over again for the editor. And just like Road Work Ahead, the revisions didn’t satisfy the first editor, so I got the book back and sold it to another publisher.

The second editor also wanted the book revised, so 12 years passed between the first draft and the publication date! (And now it’s been in print longer than that — so all’s well that ends well.)

Now it’s your turn! What is your ELECTRICITY story?