Still here, still writing
I made good writing progress Tuesday. I've got about half of a new Jane poem. I'm writing about a piece of her Juvenilia called "Love and Friendship." Hopefully I'll finish a draft today, but we shall see. I also wrote a draft of a poem about some grumpy-looking robins I saw standing about in a patch of grass.
And starting this week, I've been taking Carolyn See's advice and writing "charming notes" to authors, illustrators and editors whose work I admire. All because Linda Urban (lurban) turned me on to See's book, Making a Literary Life. One of the folks I wrote to is Ted Kooser because I so loved his most recent book, Valentines, as I believe I shared earlier this week. Of course, I completely forgot to thank him for Delights and Shadows, one of his other books that I own and adore as well. Le sigh.
Yesterday, I got no real writing done, although I did manage my "charming note" and to read some more of Edel's book, Literary Biography. Instead, I spent the afternoon with the current Regional Coordinator for the Eastern PA chapter of JASNA on Jane Austen Society stuff. Come April 5th, the job will be mine, so it's only fair to sort out what that might actually, like, mean before then.
Tomorrow, I promise some actual content, in the form of a Poetry Friday book review of Twelve Rounds to Glory: The Story of Muhammad Ali by Charles R. Smith, Jr., illustrated by Bryan Collier. But for now, I'm off to write.
And starting this week, I've been taking Carolyn See's advice and writing "charming notes" to authors, illustrators and editors whose work I admire. All because Linda Urban (lurban) turned me on to See's book, Making a Literary Life. One of the folks I wrote to is Ted Kooser because I so loved his most recent book, Valentines, as I believe I shared earlier this week. Of course, I completely forgot to thank him for Delights and Shadows, one of his other books that I own and adore as well. Le sigh.
Yesterday, I got no real writing done, although I did manage my "charming note" and to read some more of Edel's book, Literary Biography. Instead, I spent the afternoon with the current Regional Coordinator for the Eastern PA chapter of JASNA on Jane Austen Society stuff. Come April 5th, the job will be mine, so it's only fair to sort out what that might actually, like, mean before then.
Tomorrow, I promise some actual content, in the form of a Poetry Friday book review of Twelve Rounds to Glory: The Story of Muhammad Ali by Charles R. Smith, Jr., illustrated by Bryan Collier. But for now, I'm off to write.