My Blue Muse Writing Life
P.J.Taylor  

January 22, 2004

Where I am...

I've been sending out lots of submissions--41 poems are out there working. I received an acceptance today from an online mag www.rocksaltplum.com and was very happy with the news. The editor asked me to do some major changes and after sleeping on it and tinkering, I agreed and am pleased with the result. It's tricky to accept but it's all in the best interest of the poem and not the ego of the poet. The key is to maintain the sounds, rhythm and intended landing place and I feel good that this was done.

Anyway, I feel like after this cruddy year, I'm finally getting back to work. I've been doing major and minor revisions and agree that having poems spend a year in dark file folders can do wonders for them, in the sense that a letting go transpires a lessening of judgment and obsession. After a period of time, the work can be seen with clearer eyes. And whether the changes are tended to with tweezers or buzzsaws, I'm enjoying the process.

We'll see what editors think! One goal of mine is to get a chapbook together by the end of the year. We shall see. Another goal is just to write. To write something new. See the world in a new way that inspires me to capture it in words. It's off in my peripheral vision right now, I can sense its presence, so I know this mental pause is not forever.

"Onward!"
as H. Junker, editor of Zyzzyva says on all his rejection letters. And I'm accumulating a little pile.

Posted by mybluemuse at January 22, 2004 8:21 PM
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