Writing Group & Writing Regularly

Amber, Sharon and I have been doing our writing group regularly again, after a hiatus due to sickness, vacations, etc. Last night, we did an exercise called "In Multiple Frames" from the Virtual Poetry Workshop site. After using just about every interesting exercise we could find from poetry books, the web, and our creative little minds, the Virtual Poetry Workshop seems to be the best place to find new ways of creating poems.

Something I realized a few nights ago is that I have been writing a lot more than I'd thought. I think this is common for me--where I'll be complaining to a friend about how I haven't been writing, and when they ask me when the last time was that I wrote, I'll stumble a bit and then say, a few days ago. Tuesday night, I couldn't go to sleep, so I decided to get up and write. I opened a document that I thought was a poem I had started, only to find that I had actually gone pretty far with it; it was already in eight sections. I love it when this happens. So, I revised it that night and yesterday. Sharon and Amber will take a look at it and give me feedback next week.

My recent subject matters are emotionally draining and I've been pretty exhausted for the last week. Still, I'm glad I'm finally getting this stuff out.