I’m not supposed to make excuses or apologies as much as I do. So, instead, here’s the truth as to why there was no posting yesterday.
I have been asked to consider certain poetic forms differently. To do this will, I realise, require vulnerability not previously forthcoming in my work. Before yesterday, a double life existed between the mind and the page. Readers would see stories or opinions which they could relate to or not, but only I knew there was more to the ideas than was shown. Starting today, you will get more depth.
I have also asked myself to reassess which emotions are focused on. That wasn’t part of the original remit but has emerged as I accept that bitterness runs through far more of my work than I was previously happy to admit. To become an objective storyteller, that negative emotion needs to be sublimated into other things. It happens during my exercise with increasing frequency.
The same can now begin to be true of my written work.
I’ve been asked to focus on creating depth of imagery using the economy of wordplay. There’ll be a daily haiku, as a brain resets certain operating parameters for the current projects I am working on. We also need to ensure that the NaPoWriMo is finished successfully and that submissions are temporarily called to a halt so that these tweaks to my practice can be effectively established.
Most importantly, yesterday I allowed myself to sit and celebrate being validated for what is now possible. It is a foolish person who, when they ask for help, then dismisses that advice without first considering its consequences. I spent most of yesterday re-writing a poem with the new insight I’d been given and this morning it is abundantly apparent that I’ve woken up in a better world.
Yesterday was a growing day. Today, we’ll get back to the schedule.