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Leigh Anne Eck is inviting bloggers to join a new community of writers. The purpose is for us writers to share and celebrate our writing goals. Click the image above to read more about Leigh Anne’s invitation.
Somehow writing down a plan for writing makes it more real. WordPress sent me a notification that I have made 1,337 posts. I’m not sure why that number is significant to WordPress, but it made me realize that I write an average of about 200 posts per year. I don’t plan to make that a goal, but I do plan to continue to participate in these writing challenges and blogging round ups:
- March Slice of Life Challenge (and weekly during the other months)
- April Poem-a-Day
- December Haiku-a-Day
- Poetry Friday
- Laura Shovan’s poem-a-day in February (her birthday month)
I work with two writing groups. These monthly and bi-monthly meetings keep me writing and working toward publishing goals. In 2018, I celebrated the publishing of my first poetry book for children, Bayou Song. I am currently working on Swamp Song. I hope to finish this manuscript in 2019.
Hitting the Send button on submissions takes courage and vulnerability. I’m trying to get better at it and take rejections in stride. After all, don’t we read over and over about famous writers getting multiple rejections. It’s all part of the process. I hope to be more brave in 2019 and submit more often.
The third goal for my writing life is to write a poem a day. I do this as part of challenges like the December #haikuforhope and in April as part of National Poetry Month. Why not do this every day? Using my scrap paper art journal, I am invited to just write without judgement.
I have found a writing home in poetry. Poetry fits me and is comfortable. Maybe too comfortable? One of my writing goals for 2019 is to try a different genre. I’ve written fiction, but I’ve shied away from memoir. Two of my writing group partners are writing memoir, so I’m intrigued and inspired.
Writing in a community of writers both strengthens my writing and urges me on to write more, submit more, and to be more. Would you like to be a part of Let’s Write 2019? There’s always room for one more at the table.
Reflections on the Teche 