Plans for Poetry Month

As a quick writing update… well, I have actually been writing a little bit. ^-^ And I do mean little. We’re talking a paragraph here and there. Still, it makes me happy because I feel my creativity is slowly creeping back to me.

In other news, October is almost upon us!  For me that means fun costumes, an extra excuse to eat pumpkin pie, and also Poetry Month. ^-^ I’m more of a dabbler in poetry than anything else, but I’ve always enjoyed it.

Just like last year, I’ll be celebrating Poetry Month on the blog by putting up an old poem of mine every week. However, there will be a slight change in that I will be posting them to the blog-roll first and then moving them to my Poetry page later; which should make them easier to find.

This year I’ve also decided to feature a series of poems that I have written for my family. I call it my “Feathers” series. It was written over a several years as my sisters and I all left home for the first time. It’s a set of simple poems that I’ve really enjoyed writing, and I hope that you will also enjoy reading them. ^-^ The first one is titled, “For Stephanie”, and it will be up on Friday. [Edit: The official title is actually ‘Fly’]

Have a great week! ^-^

Research Is A Writer’s Best Friend

Here’s something you didn’t know about me: I have been involved in several short film projects over the last couple of years, in a variety of capacities. My dear friends over at Red Gryphon Pictures have been steadily upping the ante on their yearly projects, and this year’s is the biggest so far: A half hour of post-apocalyptic sci-fi adventure! We are in the final phases of pre-production right now, less than a week till filming begins, and because I am the Production Assistant this means I have been very busy the last couple of weeks. (Part of the reason why I originally wanted to have Romaine finished by now!)

So, I’ve only been sporadically working on my writing, and I have no update news for Romaine. However, I don’t want to go too long without posting something here, so I thought I’d talk a little bit about a part of writing that I find to be super fun: Research!

Why Didn’t I Make My Deadline?

Lists! Lists are just amazing things. Lists help salve the soul and bring order to chaos. Whenever someone makes fun of me for making lists upon lists, I just smile sadly. How horrible it must be not to know the joy of a well-ordered list!

A well ordered list could save the world. Or at least, it could help you come up with a kick-ass plan to do it. ^-^

In the post just before this one, I talked about how I missed the deadline for the finished first draft of my short story, Romaine. Missed is really the wrong word, as I didn’t come anywhere close to finishing on time. Even though it was a self imposed deadline, I was pretty crushed that I wasn’t able to get it.

Well, after a relaxing anniversary weekend with my Scholar, I sat down to think about exactly why it is that I failed in such an epic manner. I assure you this is not a list of excuses to make myself feel better. In this post I’m going to look carefully at each point and figure out how to avoid that problem in the future. Perhaps this way I can turn my failure into something useful.