Sunday January 13th, 2019

The exercise:

If Wednesday was Thing 1, then consider today Thing 2.

Write about: the unveiling.

Mine:

Perhaps that is too grand a prompt for this.

Perhaps not.

Either way, here it comes.

I have mentioned on more than one occasion that I've been devoting my creative efforts elsewhere since I've stopped writing on the prompts I post here. I have, quite intentionally, not provided any details, as the project I've been working on is a big one and completion has felt a long way away. It's still a long way off, but enough progress has been made that I'm comfortable with pulling back the curtain now.

I've been working on a poetry collection, about parenthood, intended for fellow parents. It has a title, but I'll save that for another time. I've recently finished a first draft of all the poems I was working on, which ended up being 152 in all.

Don't get too excited. There's a lot of haiku in there.

Anyway. Currently I'm working on organizing them, putting them in some semblance of order. Once that's done I'll see if any more need to be written (already added two more) and if any of the current ones can be culled. Then I will get to work turning those first drafts into final drafts. Which, for some, will require a lot of polishing. For others... they felt pretty final when I initially wrote them. But I'll obviously give those ones another hard look as well.

How long will this take? Who knows. I'm chipping away at this collection between work and taking care of the boys and all the other things that life seems to keep me busy with. I have unofficial goals for when I'd like to see it done but I'm not going to stress about it, as long as I'm still making progress. Momentum kind of stagnated over the holidays (which I'm basically okay with) but I'm gaining traction again now as routines return to what passes for normal around here.

I'll keep you posted as things near the finish line.