A Writer's Notebook, Two-Thousand-Four-Hundred-And-Thirty-Nine

The last few nights, I have pushed myself to write a lot more poetry than I had been.  For a long while, I'd settled on writing five poems each night, which may seem like a lot, but I find that I actually do better when I work this way, not that I do not return to the drafts for editing and such later.  I think part of it is that I just have less concern, less preciousness, about my work, so I am freer and more willing to experiment or write something that I might not otherwise.  I also think that the best ideas are often those that come from pushing and pushing to get something new.  The first few things are the easy ones, and after that, it takes more work, but inspiration will show up if it knows you are serious and won't blink until it gives you something to work with.  Well, anyhow, I had been writing five poems daily for a long while, which was less previously but felt like a decent amount of work, but a few weeks ago, I increased my personal quota to nine poems, and just last night, that raised again to 17, and I am feeling like it is a positive change.  If nothing else, it has helped me to open up a bit so I could write a few poems about ideas that I have been wrestling with for a long while.

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