Extracurricular Writing

I am back to the discipline of writing a thousand words a day. Sometimes they are done by ten in the morning. Sometimes I struggle until two in the afternoon to get the words written. Either way, every day, working with words and ideas. The core writing is poetry and my prose writing on lesbian publishing histories. Yet, everyday cannot be days of poems or formal prose. Some days I write what I consider the extracurricular pieces. Reviews, columns, promotional items and occasionally pieces of joy about a poet that I love as I did for Brick Books about Betsy Warland.

A nifty little website aggregates these occasional pieces and shows stats about them. I love these kinds of statistics as they make me feel quite productive, even as I glance at all of the work that remains to be done.