A Writer's Notebook, Day Four-Hundred-And-Sixteen

I did indeed make it to seven poems today.  It feels like a positive change.  As mentioned, I've not had much of an issue keeping up with my work, in terms of the volume.  Now, that may be in part a response to the stress I have been facing in other areas.  For one thing, that stress provides fuel many times.  Though griping and expressing frustration is not always a great tactic, it does seem to keep the muse wealthy in potential fodder.  As well, it is a good way to reconsider, vent, or otherwise mentally engage with an issue, and can be healthy in that regard.  Beyond all of that, though, I think the fact that I have been committed to the work but had so much else going on just put me into a sort of automatic response where I just kept going without allowing for any kind of issue to arise, as I was dealing with too many other things to allow such issues in my writing.   Now, though, I am at the other end of that, and so I am pushing myself.  If I have a problem, it is often just another step on the journey.  Learning from obstacles and other challenges of this sort is often a necessary step, and will generally include some form of discomfort from the lack of familiarity with some of the new concepts.