Monthly Archives: November, 2007
midway
I found out today that I did not win or even place in one of the contests I entered. Sigh. I keep thinking of my friend Jennifer, who made a resolution one year to get more rejection slips, because she said that meant you were sending things out and not letting them languish in a …
The Notebooks
I don’t journal, and sometimes I think I’m the only writer around who doesn’t. But then I remind myself that I blog regularly, which is a version of journaling, I guess. But is it really, when you’re writing in public? There’s so much in my life that I would never blog about, so it seems …
block or blank
I’ve been trying not to think about the contests my poems are in now but have been unable to move onto other writing projects. It’s very rare for me to have nothing going, nothing on the front or back burners, but I’m just feeling very still, writing-wise. Not frozen, not necessarily blocked, just poised in …
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