I am horrible about falling into the “compare” trap when talking about progress on a project. If I’ve written 100 words, someone else has done 500. If I manage 1,000, someone else has done a chapter. It’s discouraging to me so I find that I have to pull away from reading a lot of what my friends are doing. This is even worse when I am working in verse because word counts and chapter counts, well, they don’t count up the same. So I am trying to celebrate a poem a day. More is good. More is great. But more doesn’t always happen and that’s okay.
Poem a Day #15
one well-written poem
(no chapters, word or page counts)
a productive day
Susan Taylor Brown.
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Yes!
I’d say we could count how many words we cross out, but then we could compare who cut more, too….
I agree. I think we cut more, especially if we go by percentages. 🙂
Good for you. I try to think of writing like yoga – it’s not a competition against anyone but yourself. A poem a day, like I told you last night, is amazing. I celebrate you.
Good analogy that writing is like yoga and that we compete only with ourselves. The hard part, of course, is that rest of the world conditions us to compete with everyone else.
I appreciate you celebrating me. Thank you.
your one well-written poem
beats my not-at-all written poem
but hey, who’s counting?
🙂
No more counting for me. No more scorekeeping.
Excellent.
Thanks!
I have written zero poems this month. 😉
I missed this. Haha on the having written zero poems this month.