A Writer's Notebook, Day Two-Hundred-And-Seventy-Five

It is late, but it was a rather good day in terms of productivity.  I have four new poems, one from this morning, one from the early evening, and two that I just wrote.  I feel that two are interesting.  One of those two I am actually quite happy with at the moment.  It seems to fit into another of the general categories I've been playing with, connecting to a few different pieces that I can think of.  It focuses on the idea of taking something fairly abstract and building a sort of extended metaphor out of it, in this case the concept of doubt.  The thing is to take a concept that is fairly abstract and treat it as concrete.

(That actually is a really good idea for an exercise form my upcoming workshop, and fits quite well into the general theme I am working with, but I will think about that at another time.)

So, I feel that I got a fair amount of good work done today, though it took a long time to get the work really going.  I had a busy evening, with company and going out and such, so I didn't have a chance to work until late, really.  It was in anticipation of that reality that led to me writing this afternoon, though I would like to cultivate that practice.  In all, I feel quite happy about the way my work has been going the last few days, and I am recognizing that it has a certain cycle that I need to allow to happen.  On those days when I don't feel as productive, I still feel bad about my work, but I also see that it is necessary in some ways to focus my thinking and allow for other, better poems to come into being.

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