As I'm passed the halfway point, I'm going to take a moment and reflect a little bit on the project. I meant to do this earlier--not quite so close to the conclusion--but alas, time limitations have conspired against me.
I don't think I realized how ambitious this project was when I started it. A poem a day didn't seem totally unreachable. What I didn't realize that while I said "one poem a day" what I meant secretly was "one finished poem" a day. This would have been an important distinction to make clear to myself in the beginning. Whoops.
I hate posting drafts of poems. I hate having people read things before I think they're finished, and I'm so used to only sharing that part of the project that anything even remotely in process seems like a failure.
I was/am surprised at how like an actual job this project has become. I always knew that writing was work, but always in an abstract way. I didn't realize that I could (and did!) occasionally hate it and dread it like I dread my 9-5. I've never actually had any kind of structure to writing, and when you only write when you feel it, it seems so simple. Phew.
As far as continuing the project--I'm still really unsure. Probably not in such an intense way. At least, not until after I've taken a little bit of a break. Corey has purposed a new project. We'll send one another one non-crappy poem a week and send one another written responses on Saturdays. I think that receiving that kind of feedback was what I initially wanted from this project.
Right. So. Ok. In summary:
Pros to the project:
Many drafts with which to work
Chance to show interested parties thoughts/emotions over the past weeks
Structured writing project
More that I can't think of because my Saturday brain is sleepy
Writing the occasional good poem. *pffffffft*
Cons:
"Publishing" drafts of poems
The realization (recurring) that this is hard work
Weeee.
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