Minor Productivity, ho!

In six days, I must submit a portfolio. Several poems, a piece of creative non-fiction, and a multi-media piece that also incorporates a poem. (It doesn’t have to. But it will.) Today is a day I have set aside for working on these things.

 

Deadlines. For the most part, my deadlines are self-imposed. NaNoWriMo is the big one, of course, but the benefit of NaNoWriMo is that the deadline is for a first draft. One doesn’t need to worry about things like, y’know, whether or not it’s good.

 

I think I’m more worried about whether or not I can get it done in time than whether or not I can be adequately articulate. I need to write more poems, and poems can be bastard things sometimes. It can take weeks to get a good poem. I have one, a sonnet I quite like, and I might submit my sestina as well because it is not terrible. I have made some changes. They are…. well. Not terrible. Not perfect, either. That’s the trouble. A poem can benefit from setting it aside for a while before reading it over again. I mean, not long ago I (finally!) came up with an agreeable line change for a sonnet I had already posted here and had to go and change it. That sonnet was about 12 years old. I thought I was never going to get that line to work!

 

At any rate, today was a productive day, and tomorrow shall be productive also.

 

But what is missing? I want to read more. I want to blog more – and importantly, blog on interesting things, not just “this is wot I did at school this week” which I feel like this is becoming. I’ve been holding off on posting more New York Sour because I don’t feel as if I’ve been posting much of anything else. I also don’t want to phone anything in, just throw something together to have something to post. It needs to be good work, since I’m charging for it. I think I’ll post a prose poem thing I’ve had sitting in the wings for a while this week. You must promise to enjoy it sufficiently.

 

My notebook’s getting big and chunky. I am outrageously pleased by this.

 

I’ll leave you with some Thelonious Monk. Make sure you get yourself a nice glass or something before listening to it. It’s only right.

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