A Writer's Notebook, Day Five-Hundred-And-Thirty-Three

It is quite late and I have had a rather long day, so I will be keeping this fairly short.  I have been getting more consistent with my writing.  At the moment, I am aiming at ten or so poems a day, but I am hoping that will jump back up soon.  It is funny, but sometimes I am writing and can just pull a new poem out of the air like nothing, other times it is harder to get started.  For example, this afternoon, I was writing and was in that zone, but then I received a phone call and when I returned to work was no longer in that state.  Tonight, though I did write my poems, I felt rather sluggish and had to force them out for the most part.  I wish I could understand what pushes me in which direction, though I would hesitate to choose to make it easy, as I think many times I write quite well when I am less inspired in that way.  As well, I am aware of how ironic it is for me to be complaining about sometimes being more inspired than others when I have the kind of writing output I do, but it is worth realizing that many of the poems I write come from pressing myself to work, not from an urgent and burning desire to put this or that idea on the page.

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