… or not. If I want to deposit my check this afternoon, I’ll have drag my ass up out of this chair, put on my jacket, get in my car, and drive to the bank. Ack! On the other hand, I don’t want to stuff it into the automatic teller machine.
This leaves me putting on my jacket some time in the next fifteen minutes or so. Ah, well.
Oh, yeah, another thing I write about is memory, and feelings about memory. In fact, I’m working on a poem with exactly that theme.
On another note, what is it you procrastinate about and what do you do about it? There are a couple of writing tasks I’ve managed to put off for quite some time now, but the day of reckoning is arriving. Ack!
Tonight, along with my laundry, I really am gonna work on them …
I’ve been participating in the Robert Brewer’s PAD Chapbook Challenge this month http://www.writersdigest.com/poeticasides/ writing about America, but until the last two days, I really hadn’t hit a grove.
The last few days have been better, and they’ve been better because I’ve started writing about feelings — mostly mine — about it. And yeah, I did know that at bottom I write about feelings, mine or others, but somehow I’d managed not to apply it to this, and I’d begun feeling that I’d made a mistake in choosing my subject.
But now things are looking up, though I do now have six or so poems that are going to need significant reworking.
The November PAD challenge is to do a series of poems on a theme, with the idea that they will be assembled into a chapbook. Okay, cool. I picked as my theme, American History, which I’ve had in the back of my mind for a while.
There are a couple of problems with this, for me. To start with, history was the one class where I was paying the least attention, and after high school I don’t think I ever took another history course, so I’ve been doing lots of reading.
I’m not sure where all the poems – those written so far and those I have yet to write — will take me. History was never, certainly not up til now, a subject from which I took fire. I don’t know if the resulting poems will be publishable, but, hey, right now I’m committed to the idea, so I’ll see where I end up — most likely with lots of revising to do, but that’s the nature of the beast.
Have you noticed that worries, especially about things you have no control over, and therefore shouldn’t be agonizing over in the first place, chase one another away? I was terribly worried about the need to change a plane reservation until I found out that I’d paid the wrong amount on a bill. Now I’m so over the top with grinding my wheels over this stuff I don’t know whether I’m coming or going ..
In his Poetic Asides blog,
http://www.writersdigest.com/poeticasides
Robert Brewer is proposing a possible “poem a day” challenge for November.If y’all are interested, hop on over and leave a comment.
Peggy
The Muse Online Writers Conference is over for another year and again it was a stupendous success. Registration is now open for the 2009 conference if any of y’all want to sign up.
It’s been a busy few weeks — had some poems accepted, done some writing, been working on my book. This week is the Muse Online Writers Conference. This year, I’m managing to keep up with three of the workshops — last year I managed only one, so this is better! I’d love to be able to do more, but as it is, I feel, well, fairly frazzled trying to keep up with everything.
Tomorrow is Friday, the last day, which is both good and bad. Still, I know the transcripts and handouts will be available for some time to come if I want to go back and do some of the other stuff on my own.
Now, as usual, my biggest beef with all this is that each day has only 24 hours.
I am coming down with Bronchitis (!ack!) courtesy, no doubt, of my son, so now I am armed with Afrin and Robitussen DM and under orders to drink lots of hot liquids. I felt like, um, dirt, this weekend and didn’t do much — wrote one poem, in response to an exercise, while out grocery shopping.
Fortunately, I’m feeling somewhat better today. Wrote one poem on the way to work (second response to exercise) and another at lunch time. I decided I want to expand my poetry chapbook (for adults) to a book-book and that my kids poetry isn’t coherent enough to form a book. So I’ve decided on a theme (American History) and wrote the first (intro) poem over lunch.
Since unfortunately I wasn’t paying attention in history class, I’m going to have some homework to do…
Should be fun.
Since I am fairly obsessive about such things, I as usual checked my spam to see if there were any legitimate comments, and lo and behold, there was one from Jessica Kennedy. !! knows why the !!! spam filterer thought it was spam –
But it is now recovered.
They say that intermittent reinforcement is the strongest of all. If this is true, then I’m surely gonna keep checking on that ole’ spam filter for many years to come…
