It's back

My motivation is back, and back with a vengeance.

You may assume I mean my motivation to do work. That is laughable and of course untrue.

I feel very into writing all of a sudden. A lovely girl came in to see us yesterday (us being the avid writers at our college) who is a poet, studying for her MD in creative writing. We did writing exercises and she read our work and we could ask questions and it was generally just insightful. Is not often you see a "proper" poet in the flesh.

We read a unconscious thought poem by her friend about a schizophrenic man walking through a deprived area, and she encouraged us to do a continuous thought poem. I really like how mine turned out, but I'm keeping it to myself for a while as I work on it and turn it into something worth reading.

I did look back over some scribbles from half term, and there is some nice useable ideas.

Here is one I'm partial to:

Forehead kisses
(But not the good kind)
The this is as far as it goes kind
The feels like tiny lovely stabs kind
The I am so sorry this is my fault kind
The I'll just hold you even though this is the problem kind
The this is it kind


The I think this has to end kind.


Not bad. I reckon it needs some description. Something about stubble. Who knows? Only a first draft after all.

What's important is that I feel positive about the future and that really is a good thing.