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Last year I wrote very little: I worked on a manuscript, edited it, sent it out. I collected rejections and found excuses to work on all my other interests instead. All the activities around MS submission aren't writing, but they're still work, and I found it difficult to both submit and write a lot. I needed to pick one, so I picked the former.
But the last four months I've been writing more regularly, and while the first few poems I wrote this year will never see the light of day, at least I was getting some stuff down. And then a good poem happened, and then another, and combined with the stuff I had found time to work on last year, some of which were similarly good, well, I'm happy with the way things are turning out. About a half dozen strong poems that I think will work their way into the current manuscript, eventually. Or another MS? If that ever even happens? Six poems could be 10% of a manuscript.
I've had years of very little writing (like last year) and years of a lot (2019 and 2020). I've tried to take the approach of not letting what I haven't done wear on me, but instead to resolve to get back at it eventually when I have time. That goes for writing but for everything else I do too. And I think it's working. I don't have a book out or even accepted but I have a manuscript I think is really good, and a bunch of uncollected poems I believe in, too. Even if I'm not where I want to be right now, I have a belief that what I'm doing is worthwhile. I hope my work stands out. I hope it's noticed one day. I feel like it stands up at least as well as what I'm seeing published right now. And that's something.