: About Me

Hello and thank you for reading,
My name is Jesse La Greca. I am a 28 year old man who is currently living in New York City. Like many other writers I have a full time day job but this is where my passion truly lies. I find that writing offers me a release valve on the flow of life that can fill me with joy as well as wash my misery down the drain, it gives me hope, it gives me purpose, it is how I heal and how I dream. I hope it is able to do the same and more for you.
I am currently working on my second novel as well as my third book of poetry. I also have completed a book of short stories. I am hoping to get published and embark upon a new career of writing for a living in some capacity or another. After reveling in the subsequent fame and fortune that are sure to follow immediately upon publication I plan on traveling the world as an international man of mystery/rare wine connoisseur/millionaire playboy. If that does not pan out
a decent job writing on a wage somewhere respectably above the poverty line would be a good consolation prize. I am hoping to connect with other like-minded scribes here for mutual edification, inspiration, friendship, true love, or just plain old good American schmidts and giggles.
Again, thank you for your interest. I wish you luck in your pursuit of success, enlightenment and love. Hopefully we can laugh about this over a drink on some beach somewhere in the future.

My passion is ...

My writing, my hopes and my dreams

I know too much about ...

too much, and still not enough. read too much. think too much

My parents always told me ...

"You're gonna shoot your eye out with that thing! "

My childhood ambition ...

Oceanographer ( I was a wierd kid )

My favorite memory ...

will live in my heart until the day I die

Why I write ...

I have to

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Lately I'm reading Herman Melville,Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Terry Pratchett, and I've been listening to Radiohead, Portishead, Beck, The Doors and The Beatles

My first job ...

working in a restaurant as a cook

My best moment ...

Winning the Super Bowl

My inspiration ...

What is inspiration but anything and everything? Many people spend their entire lives searching for the answer to that question. My only guess would be just that, a guess, at best a chance or hope and nothing more. What inspires the heart is either already there deep within your soul, or you must find it somewhere else,in some place, something, someone. In my heart I think I may have my own inspiration, but in my soul I know I am still searching for my muse

Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Despair

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Despairing All I have is hope Someone someone please My words remain dead silent I hope someone's listening It feels just like I'm drowning Water people everywhere No one can see or hear me And I'm running out of air Imagine just one planet With no moons no stars no sun Cold lifeless and barren Nowhere light can come in from Hideous a monster Shouldn't come out of his cave All that his heart should feel Is the cold steel of a blade From the bottom of the pool I see people in the sun Watered down romantic fool Can not remember where I'm from Deep within cold water All that I had was hope It...

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