Tammy, first of all, thank you for the generous and kind shoutout for my work, and for the workshop. Especially the latter. As I'm sure you know, those of us who facilitate such things carry a different and substantial kind of self doubt with us ... so it is good to hear, months later, that someone participating took some value from the effort. I appreciate your words very, very much.
My writing process changed quite drastically here in the final third or so of the year in that I really had to bear down and finish my book ... which I did, and I am relieved. The final couple weeks I was working that 2K – 3K words/day clip and it just isn't sustainable for me. My brain was cooked. 1000 or 1500 is manageable, if I'm counting, which I'm usually not. It can be counter productive, because sometimes a couple hundred words in the midst of a couple hours of deep reflection can be far and away more valuable.
I want to get back to more time free writing the stuff that gets burned when the journal is full, and more short poems, plus transcribing and re-working a manuscript's-worth of poems for my next book of poetry, all while addressing the edits of the book I've turned in, which I expect to be significant. I've never worked with an editor of such a large project before so I really don't know what to expect. All will be revealed in the next couple months, heh....
Tammy, first of all, thank you for the generous and kind shoutout for my work, and for the workshop. Especially the latter. As I'm sure you know, those of us who facilitate such things carry a different and substantial kind of self doubt with us ... so it is good to hear, months later, that someone participating took some value from the effort. I appreciate your words very, very much.
My writing process changed quite drastically here in the final third or so of the year in that I really had to bear down and finish my book ... which I did, and I am relieved. The final couple weeks I was working that 2K – 3K words/day clip and it just isn't sustainable for me. My brain was cooked. 1000 or 1500 is manageable, if I'm counting, which I'm usually not. It can be counter productive, because sometimes a couple hundred words in the midst of a couple hours of deep reflection can be far and away more valuable.
I want to get back to more time free writing the stuff that gets burned when the journal is full, and more short poems, plus transcribing and re-working a manuscript's-worth of poems for my next book of poetry, all while addressing the edits of the book I've turned in, which I expect to be significant. I've never worked with an editor of such a large project before so I really don't know what to expect. All will be revealed in the next couple months, heh....
You're voice is so vulnerable in this piece, yet your determination and hope show a confidence that gives courage to the reader.