I’m back! I hope
everything went great for everyone last month.
I lurked around the blogging world but was so busy, I didn’t bother to
comment. I know, shame.
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April, and the Poem-A-Day Challenge, zipped right by
me. I ended up with 48 poems of varying
quality, a whole bunch of ideas for new blog posts, a few books read, tons of
rejections, NO acceptances, and a few poems debuting online (some of which I
posted about, already).
My last poem on the local blog can be found here. It's the second one and the last word should be "shore" not "storm"; it was changed by someone else.
Also, my horror poem is up on Lakeside Circus! Read it here.
May will be another month of submissions. I will also be revising the pieces I wrote
last month to see just how many are “worthy” of submission. I must admit, I get extremely disheartened
with the creative process once the “marketing” side of things comes to the
fore. Good thing I love the act of
writing itself. Maybe, someday, people
will just read my work on here and I won’t have to submit to find an audience…
yeah, right.
How are your plans for May shaping up? Did you have an accomplished April?
48 poems is very impressive! I can't remember the last time I wrote even one...sad, I know.
ReplyDeleteI can't write a novel to save my life, the short forms are what I am drawn to. Fiction writers can learn a lot from poetry: Brevity, musicality, metaphor, etc.
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