discipline

My poetry hasn’t made any significant strides so far this year. I’m still working on a piece that I want to turn into a poetry video. The piece is trying to blend body image with beauty in nature and overcoming your past because you are worthy of making yourself a priority.

I haven’t touched my novel manuscript since probably November. There is just so much that has to be re-written in a dialogue format rather than a narrator format. It isn’t really that I have to add chapters but that I have to augment existing chapters. I still so far in to the process have not developed a voice for my other main character. I’ve done some throw away scenes where I try and get the character reacting to different emotions or situations.

One thing I did accomplish was finding a unique name or label that I needed to be able to cement a big issue. While I have other issues that make sense in my head but I can’t seem to verbalize or write down in a coherent way. It all centers around magic and equivocation and people believing that they are making a free will choice but they are really being manipulated by the magician.

As far as my photography, it is normal for me to take a break during the winter time. I’m just not that in to snow covered nature. I also fail each year to try and photograph owls out in nature during the winter. I usually reboot my efforts when the bald eagles are nesting along the river ways. I did check the State Fair website and there is no list available yet for the photo entry categories.  I also want to try and do some consignment for my photos. Even if it doesn’t do anything, I still want to follow through with putting some photography in some local consignment shops.