by January O’Neil
Did you set writing goals for 2009? Let us know what your top goal is, below in the comments.
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I took two words from the image prompt:
somebody watching you!
Will write about my resolutions too and post it here.
Happy New Year all of you!
I wrote a little about my rather vague goals, and wrote a poem using some of the words from the Wordle which touches on my feelings about poetry this year
Summer, Here
You’ll find mine in this post:
http://beyondtheblog.wordpress.com/2009/01/05/tony-on-infection-more
Enjoy.
For word prompt #7:
geranium
(Note: This was written in the memory the life partner of U.S. Poet Laureate Kay Ryan, Carol Adair, who died yesterday.)
I took five words from image prompt #7. skin
here is a link to my writing goals for 2009 which can be found on my companion blog Watermaid Musing.
writing goals 2009
nothing from a prompt, but here are some i wrote last week…
http://asquarepegbreaksfree.blogspot.com/2009/01/road-poetry-and-last-of-vacation-photos.html
I did the Wordle…
http://therer2doors-thespacebetweenwords.blogspot.com/2009/01/crimson-geraniums.html
I did the Wordle prompt too: Bombast.
My goals:
http://alotus-poetry.livejournal.com/55603.html
I also did the Wordle prompt: Crimson Signature
Is my resolutions somewhere out there?
http://firmlyrooted.blogspot.com/2009/01/setting-about-routine.html
participating in read write word #7 range of view
This has nothing to do with my resolution, but I was just watching MSNBC a few minutes ago and to the podium comes freshly impeached Gov. Rob Blagojevich, and, believe it or not, he reads his favorite poem of resolution, from
Alfred, Lord Tennyson : Ulysses
Tho’ much is taken, much abides; and tho’
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Very strange.
I posted a poem about beginnings and endings.
Avoiding the Woolly Worms
Here’s a most ambitious creative goal.
I have a major project I’ve been pursuing for some time now. The project has been hampered by false starts, inconsistent personal confidence, and other deeply frustrating obstacles — such as the tragic death of a son, and my heart attack.
I want to create a ‘coffee-table’ type book, much like my Image & Verse (I&V). This book idea actually gave birth to my I&V blog as a way to help me develop and refine the concept.
The I&V book will be large size, hard cover, elegant paper stock, and high quality production and printing. The book will contain a larger number of my writings, artworks, and photographs — many never posted on I&V.
I want the book to reflect the look, feel, and the varied creative content of I&V. For example, the book’s pages will be matte black. The print type will be a light color, perhaps creme or tan or grey — and the fonts will be unique, but easily readable.
The title fonts, and the first letter of each poem and short story, will be a different font style and color from the font style used in the body of each piece — and will be larger in size.
Each reproduction of my original artwork and photographs will be a 6-color, high-resolution plate.
A CD/DVD of my “Visceral Voice” spoken word recordings will accompany the book as an inside back cover insert.
This is a borderline obsession, and haunts me always. I will make this project happen before I exit this mortal plane — so why not this year!
9. Carole
You go, Rob! This is most definitely the year. I feel you on this one.
For sure.
My goal this year is also a large one… I quit my day job so that I can transition into making my living as a writer. My day job had become my 7-day-per-week job, and even though writing was part of the job, it was a formulaic TV show I could write in my sleep, and 95% of my job was not writing.
I have a finished novel to publish and completed screenplays to get produced and have done nothing with them while my job absorbed my life.
This is the year!
I love when a prompt generates so much participation.
Good luck with your writing goals in 2009.
Peace.
something I would like to share.
http://gameover709.wordpress.com/2008/12/30/with-her-i-am-free/