Mondays are: three classes, mentoring someone, meetings, then childchildchild. All topped off with terrible news from a major poet we were bringing to campus. So... tomorrow should be better, I hope. -Olga
Met fellow Bread Loaf pals and attended a reading sponsored by Poet Lore. Had a blind date with a memoirist. She and I exchanged contacts and was able to make some pitches/queries.
This is crazy week in the seasonal economy world, and i've lost track of days of not writing, but i've done things I'll count as writing anyway: summer's end painting party, trip to a permafrost research site to learn something from scientists for a climate change writing project i'm doing for the NPS....and, well, took some naps and went to some parties. I'll extend my challenge for a few days.
314 words today. Just enough to stay attached to the character I wrote about yesterday. Also had lunch with a fellow writer, talked to someone about teaching a writing class and hatched a potential writers retreat plan. Hoping for a little more writing energy/time tomorrow.
2 hours. 2000 words. I am still writing a silly story about riding a dragon. Almost done, I hope. Also sketched out a novel idea and wrote about some family time. Built a bookcase with my dad.
Some time, an hour, maybe, total (?), spent looking through old poems, doing small revisions, and figuring out what to read for this thing I volunteered to read at. Also, a bit of journaling.
~700 new words and ~100 revised to go with a few lines in a journal but vision to go somewhere. Gave up on a book about getting sober and one about girls with Asperger's but relished the first story of David Stevenson's and Justin Hermann's books.
Mondays are: three classes, mentoring someone, meetings, then childchildchild. All topped off with terrible news from a major poet we were bringing to campus. So... tomorrow should be better, I hope. -Olga
ReplyDeleteAndromeda, I adore that quote!
ReplyDelete(Me again, Olga)
DeleteMet fellow Bread Loaf pals and attended a reading sponsored by Poet Lore. Had a blind date with a memoirist. She and I exchanged contacts and was able to make some pitches/queries.
ReplyDeleteKept whittling away on pages already written. Every so often an entirely new phrase or idea occurred -- lots of notes in the margins.
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This is crazy week in the seasonal economy world, and i've lost track of days of not writing, but i've done things I'll count as writing anyway: summer's end painting party, trip to a permafrost research site to learn something from scientists for a climate change writing project i'm doing for the NPS....and, well, took some naps and went to some parties. I'll extend my challenge for a few days.
ReplyDelete314 words today. Just enough to stay attached to the character I wrote about yesterday. Also had lunch with a fellow writer, talked to someone about teaching a writing class and hatched a potential writers retreat plan. Hoping for a little more writing energy/time tomorrow.
ReplyDeleteResearch on 3 Japanese topics. I'm reticent to count as my writing day, but I absolutely needed to do it today. Tomorrow: real words.
ReplyDelete2 hours. 2000 words. I am still writing a silly story about riding a dragon. Almost done, I hope. Also sketched out a novel idea and wrote about some family time. Built a bookcase with my dad.
ReplyDeleteSome time, an hour, maybe, total (?), spent looking through old poems, doing small revisions, and figuring out what to read for this thing I volunteered to read at. Also, a bit of journaling.
ReplyDelete~700 new words and ~100 revised to go with a few lines in a journal but vision to go somewhere. Gave up on a book about getting sober and one about girls with Asperger's but relished the first story of David Stevenson's and Justin Hermann's books.
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