true story

Jackie ♦ January 2, 2008 ♦ Leave a Comment

One of my writing resolutions this year is to work on one nonfiction piece each month, either a personal essay or a cultural criticism piece  My secondary goal on that resolution is to go through my notebooks and either do new drafts of abandoned pieces or flesh out ideas that never made it past the scribble stage.  I have a bad habit of leaving too many pieces in my notebooks, never getting them out into a full draft that gets typed up and revised, so I’m trying to break that.  I also want to focus on getting pieces finished, which is why I’m going to concentrate on one piece per month so I can actually finish some!  Of course, I won’t keep myself from making more scribbles, but I need to increase my follow-through.

This is also a rejuvenating mission for me, because my nonfiction work has really taken a back-burner since we moved to a new house last May.  I’ve done some short pieces since then, but nothing more substantial.  Poetry has been on the front burner recently, which has been great for my work, but I think balance will be the key.