Today is the last day of November! And one of my
last-day-of-the-month routines for THIS particular year is to check my progress
on the book I planned to finish writing this month, see what more needs to be
done, check my notes for this book and determine if I can indeed write the
last of the book today! I was ready to do just that for the poetry book I have been
working on this month – and everything toppled to the ground when I pulled out
my original note for this book. When I got the idea for this book, I wrote it
down on a sheet of paper. That paper has been in my writing notebook all month.
But I never really consulted it. I gave it a quick glance, got the theme “Deaf,”
and went to work. Then today I read it more thoroughly and, well, it just threw
me off track. Because I saw my original notes and realized that I wasn’t
writing the book I originally planned to write! The poems I wanted to write
were experimental poems. Something a little bit different from the norm. The
poems I have been writing are NOT experimental! Most of them are free verse,
yes, but they’re pretty much your standard fare for poetry. So I saw my notes
and suddenly wanted to write THOSE kinds of poems for this book! Oh, but wait,
I already wrote these other poems for the book. They’re not experimental, but
they’re not bad, either. (Well, that’s what I think, anyway!) And they do have
some good messages coming from a deaf person to the hearing world. But I couldn’t
really decide which type of book to make THIS particular poetry book. I thought
about it a lot, compared it to similar books already out there, and thought on
it some more. I even tried writing some of the poems in that experimental form.
I STILL couldn’t decide! So I will leave this one unfinished until I can decide
which route to take with it. If anything, maybe I’ll just combine it. I don’t
think that will hurt anything.
Aside from that, I also did some more writing in GHOST
Group 7 today.
LATER: Hours after I posted that, I wrote up a storm. Lots of poems of the experimental type. I have decided to combine both books. The poems will be BOTH traditional and experimental. That said, it's done. Yay!
LATER: Hours after I posted that, I wrote up a storm. Lots of poems of the experimental type. I have decided to combine both books. The poems will be BOTH traditional and experimental. That said, it's done. Yay!
