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

The second chapbook is, I think, fairly close to ready.  I always want to be certain things are right in sending out my work, and I am never really certain it, but at some point it is necessary to take that leap.  Of late, I have been sending out more work, and I think a lot of it is quite good.  Of course, I know that I should not focus on that, but instead on the writing itself, but that does not make publishing any less necessary, and there is a bit of a philosophical question of why write if not to share the work.  Of course, I am sure many have answers to that, but I am not using poetry as a means of personal exploration or therapy, but approach it as a serious art form.  Poetry, as with most forms of art, has the ability to be used as a valid means of self-discovery and healing, and I believe that the best artists are one's whose work involves aspects of that, but I also think there are other layers for a person who is attempting to communicate outwards and is not only writing for their own benefit.  Those are different ways of considering the work, and both are valid, but my own path is clear to me, and it is one that will require sharing my work.

I am doing quite well with writing my poems, keeping pace with four a day, and feeling quite good about most of that work.  This evening, I wrote two poems that I feel good about, the second one particularly, and the poems that I wrote this morning felt like a step forwards in some way, though I only had a sense of that as a feeling, not a clear idea of what it really means.  I think that part of it, though, may have a connection to some of the work I discussed yesterday.  There was something about the found poetry exercise that seemed to help me unlock certain ways of thinking and I have a sense of those things percolating to the surface for me.

Anyhow, I am going to keep this short and get to bed early.  I am pretty beat, and I expect tomorrow to be a busy day.

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