My Year of Writing Dangerously

On the spur of one of my (increasingly rare) moments of inspiration, I decided that in order to maintain my artistic integrity, and because I can't keep calling myself a writer for much longer without actually WRITING something, I am going to write a poem a day for the next year. The first poem will be posted on August 10, 2010 and the last poem will be posted on August 10, 2011. (Unless, of course, I decide to keep going.) Not all of the poems will be good, and DEFINITELY not all of them will be interesting, but I will gaze around my kitchen, my living room, and Coming Home Cafe until something inspires me, then write a poem about it, as well as my random thoughts on the mundane things that no one notices, but which it is my goal to immortalize over the course of this year.



Friday, December 9, 2011

Hello Again

I wrote this several months ago, then forgot to post it. For those who didn't already know I was a ditz.

Well. I failed. Technically speaking. I did not post a poem every day, I did not write 365 poems over the course of the year.

But I did write more poetry than I've ever written in my life over the past year, I've become a regular fixture of the local Vancouver Slam poetry scene (including a few wins,) and I've been invited to be a feature poet at a local event at the end of September.

So I'm calling this a success. For those of you who actually stuck with me, thank you for believing in me. I'm sorry if I've let you down.

So where to from now? I will change the name of the blog, and will post periodically. I hope some of you will continue to check in once and a while, because the thought of my work brightening someone's day (even for a moment) is a great source of joy for me.

Thank you so much for this year, I've grown so much as an artist because of the people who kept pestering me to write write write.
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