Weekly Writing Progress
Beet Down (Revisions): 1.5 scenes done
Ten Word Stories: 3
Poems: 1
Squirrel!
The door opens. A brown blur streaks by. Dog gone!
This should have been posted Saturday, and was ready…I just forgot to actually post it. Such is life when one is distracted by researching dog supplements and replacement desks.
I miscalculated when I made my goals last week – I generally only write four days a week, so that should have been 3 ten-word stories (instead of 4) and 1 poem, which I did. Now I just need to decide which ten-word story to send in to the contest…hmm.
It’s poetry month! I love to read poetry, and I like to play with it as well, though I wouldn’t call myself a poet by any means. I tend to see April kind of like St. Patrick’s Day though – everyone’s Irish on March 17th, and everyone’s a poet for the month of April. Or anyone who wants to be, anyway.
So I decided that while I’m working my way through revisions (slogging, whatever), instead of starting something new, I’ll write poetry. I’ll be reading a lot of poetry too – and to that end, I went to the bookstore yesterday and bought myself a stack of poetry books (plus the free one I got for shopping on the first day of poetry month). I also bought a copy of The Whimsical Muse: Poetic Play for Busy Creatives (that’s me!) by local author Danell Jones. Therein lie 84 writing exercises, many involving poetry that are categorized as either “quick” or “lingering”. I plan to pick out some of the quick poetry prompts to play with this month as a warm-up before I settle in with my revisions each night.
Do you read or write poetry? Will you do one or both this month?
My goals for next week are pretty simple: write a little poetry nightly, and revise a few pages nightly. That’s it…just keeping up the routine, and making it a habit. I would like to work on the plot for the next draft, but…we’ll see if I get to it or not. I need to clean off my desk, too. It’s a mess and driving me nuts.
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