Month Fourteen

The fact is, I am struggling. 

It’s been harder than ever to want to make time each day for poetry, to say nothing of the weekly posts. Lately, I’m too exhausted even for working on my novel (NaNoWriMo is here). My creative battery is depleted and I am actively considering going on hiatus from both my daily and weekly writing just to recharge.

At the outset, I wanted this blog to keep me honest in a daily writing practice, and because writing a poem a day, by its very nature, was going to result in some last-minute stinkers, I decided to turn off my inner critic and just allow myself to write without judgement.

But lately I feel like my inner critic is the only one in the audience, and he’s come armed with the juiciest rotten tomatoes. 

So, after ten weeks of consistent weekly posts, and with no noticeable change to engagement here, I am halting the weekly writing project for the time being. The biggest reason for this is that on any given week, I don’t even start working on it until Thursday or later, and that completely defeats the original purpose.

Instead of weekly project posts, I’ll endeavor to just throw in an extra post now and then when I feel like it. It takes the pressure off, and if I spend two months working on something before I put it up here, then so much the better.

I’ll continue posting poetry daily. I’m going to give it another month to see how I feel without the extra weekly deadline before I make another evaluation.

In the meantime, if you’re reading this, please consider posting a comment or sharing the pieces here you find most interesting or engaging. It would be nice to hear a few words from those of you that continue to come back.

Thanks. 

Be good to each other.

~MS