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20230924 Writing In A Time Of Blergh

September 24, 2023, 4:00pm

A question I have been asked in my current mental down-state (I still like her, by the way; can't just turn emotions off) is what have I written?

Why not share? None of it is here at WdC because some is too personal, some I hope to sell (and WdC classifies as a self- or online publication), and some is rubbish. But here is a run-down.

In the past 2 weeks since being so thoroughly dumped, I have:

Added 18k words to my novel, including 2.5k last night at a write-in organised by our local NaNoWriMo group.
Wrote:
* a drabble about a man being rejected and then immediately going after someone else.
* a horror poem about a sentient sand-thing.
* a haiku and a rhyming poem about unrequited love (see a pattern?).
* a poem about pub musos (currently under consideration for publication... yes, already).
* an essay for an open activity for people who have been previously published by the magazine about a life lesson we learnt (also already submitted).
* my 21st short story in my story cycle called Uncle Joe's Tales.

That makes a total of more than 23k words in 2 weeks. Not quite up to required NaNoWriMo levels of output, but considering how I'm feeling, I'll take it.

Sometimes we need that crap to make us create, I suppose.