Posts tagged with 'Planning'

Goal Setting

  • Posted on March 30, 2010 at 6:37 am

What on earth am I doing here?
There is no theme and no particular goal in this blog and I know that I need one.

I have a book of poetic forms. It’s called “An Exaltation of Forms.” It is nothing so famous as “Mastering the Art of French Cooking,” but it is a steady and reliable tome that makes an entertaining and educational read and covers the gamut of formal poetry. There are fifty-two chapters, which tells me that I could work out a one year program. That could be good.

I could work in sync with GrayCub on her 101/1001 project. She’s focusing her personal studies and financial situation, so it can’t be perfectly congruent, but she’s got about a year left and that does line up nicely.

I’ll begin my official check-ins on Thursday, April 1. No fooling!
Keep up with us, OK?

Flashback

  • Posted on February 28, 2010 at 2:56 am

Wow. In the transcription project, I just did a bunch of old poems from my teenage years. Crap. Crap. CRAP. Crap. And then this one with a little bit of potential that I wrote when my crush/girlfriend/”it’s complicated” started dating my brother. I may actually have to rework that into something I’m not ashamed of.

Well that was boring.

  • Posted on February 26, 2010 at 7:54 pm

OK. I think I’m done with this stack of old people and even one old short story. It seems that I type faster that I think I do, but it was still D-U-double-L, boring. Of course, it doesn’t help that I added the side project “Finish tagging all old blog posts” to the list. *headdesk*

Know, what I’m gonna go do now?

File all of this old hard copy and, because I love dead trees, print hard copy of the new drafts, and file all of that. Then wait for Khor & Gray’s guests to show so I can have the wee one all to myself for a couple of hours. Muah haa haa!

To Do Today:

  • Posted on February 26, 2010 at 5:27 pm

Today I’m going to start the transcription process for all of the poetry that has built up over the past 6 months in my office. For unknown reasons my poetic work happens in two very different way: at the computer in Word ‘03, or in pen/pencil on paper either in my journal or my day planner. I’ve also been know to use whatever notebook, receipt, or bit of flesh is handy at the time and this had resulting in a filing system for my hard copy poetry that bears some resemblance to a dry compost heap.

As your reward for my hard work (how does that add up again?) I’ll post some of my favorite lines of the day as I stumble into them.

Oh, Yeah, and I’m Writing Again

  • Posted on February 4, 2010 at 1:39 am

I’ve started a series of poems about going to the public clinic. The first is about the psych clinic upstairs. To follow, I’m thinking of writing something about the main clinic downstairs, and another about the waiting rooms.

The depressing stained drop ceiling drools sallow light onto the wretched.

A haze of body heat and unwashed clothes swirls each time a patient shifts on a wobbled-legged chairs

or cross in a shamble to enter the segregated place where the doctors keep to themselves.

The name called in a cough by the green-draped nurse is mine.

Hers is the only voice here, unless you count bits of internal monologue that burst loose in smoky whispers or momentary shouts, before the owners of the voices realize that the damper slipped.

Current Inspirations

  • Posted on February 19, 2008 at 6:35 pm

I’m working on a series about the loss of a child. I’ve got several finished, but I’m starting to hit a wall.

I’m also working a poem about a relationship at a sudden and painful end. You’ve heard of a person with bottomless eyes? Well, what happens when you finally hit bottom?

A third currently in the works is about the temptations faced when a woman first looks into a particular set of blue eyes, using the running metaphors of gemstones and religious over tones of temptation. I’m hoping to allude to “Sympathy for the Devil” and “Personal Jesus” if possible.

The last project on my poetic list this week is tentatively titled “Touch.” Sitting across the room from a love you cannot have, all you can think of a moment’s touch.

Yes, yes. Sappy love poems and themes that have been beaten to pulp. It’s what I feel like writing today.

Mini Update

  • Posted on July 31, 2007 at 9:15 am

Blogathon 2007
13 Hours Left To Pledge
Flash fiction, poetry, & literary tech for Planned Parenthood
Sponsor me! Click Here.
Total Pledged: $100.00 Thank you Lisa!

I’m starting to run out of steam for begging. I’m halfway to my goal!

Anyone else out there?

More fiction tonight, if I don’t fall asleep before the bus gets me home.

Back to Work!

  • Posted on July 30, 2007 at 8:11 pm

Blogathon 2007
27 Hours Left To Pledge
Flash fiction, poetry, & literary tech for Planned Parenthood
Sponsor me! Click Here.
Total Pledged: $95.00 Thank you Lou!

Well today seems down right slow after all that. “All” I had to do was shadow the Frame Ordering lady, record her every motion, then figure out how to document it so the next time she goes on vaca someone will know how to do her job.

Though I did bring the project home with me, I’ll spare you a sample. It’s a bit flat after the last bunch.

Speaking of which, I’m almost to $100!! Come on folks, if I can do that well in 24 hours, there is no reason I can get to $200 by this time tomorrow.

You heard about the incentives? Alright I’ll tell them again

  1. If you pledge more than $10, I will send you a clean .pdf copy of the Written Justification Blogathon 2007 manuscript, complete with links and graphics.
  2. If you pledge $25 or more, I will send you the epic conclusion of one of the many stories I started during the Blogathon.
  3. If you pledge $50 or more I will not only send you the manuscript and a story, but I will let you choose which story I will compete! Just click here or here for the list of what I wrote on Sunday. The just email me what you want to read when you pledge!

Don’t want to give the little machine your personal info? We can make arrangements. Contact me some other way and I’ll see your contribution made real!

39/49 Ten to Go

  • Posted on July 29, 2007 at 4:45 pm

Blogathon 2007
5 Hours 30 Minutes left (Um. Maybe)
Flash fiction, poetry, & literary tech for Planned Parenthood
Sponsor me! Click Here.
Total Pledged: $40.00 Thank you

What shall I write from here? If you are a sponsor, I’ll write something special just for you. What would you like to read?
More teeny fiction?
Creepy Fiction?
Mushy fiction?
Want me to try another Planned Parenthood Poem?
Want me to babble about what is happening at my house?
I can get more kitten pictures.

What do you, my beloved sponsors, want?

34/49 *Gasp* *Pant* *Wheeze*

  • Posted on July 29, 2007 at 2:32 pm

Blogathon 2007
7 Hours 30 Minutes left
Flash fiction, poetry, & literary tech for Planned Parenthood
Sponsor me! Click Here.
Total Pledged: $25.00

It’s like running a marathon when I haven’t left the couch in a year.

I keep rereading that… that thing I just wrote and wondering where in the world it came from.

Maybe the anti-psychotics weren’t such a bad idea after all!

Alright. I’m at a loss for something new to write about, and my brain is too far gone for poetry. So, you guys — Readers — I need your help.

Respond to this with a single very strange Adjective-Noun or Adverb-Verb combo. I want two words from each of you. I’ll see what that give me and build from it. Deal?

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