Just In Impression

Blogging doesn’t come naturally for me. Or maybe it’s that the appropriate mindset was never installed. For it’s not the act of writing, or even writing regularly that I struggle with, but it is the fear of not knowing that keeps my fingers still. What details are worthy enough to ask someone to spend a fraction of their time with my ramblings of a book or poetry that keeps me up at night? I imagine I’d be fool to think I’m the only writer in the 21st century asking this question as they build their platform for self-promotion. I think I’d also be a fool to let my fear impede the details that I want to share. Thus, I’d like to offer an update about how things are moving as we approach the third month of the year.

Details about my full-length novel are kept brief and sweet intentionally. I have hopes of querying this project until the letters rub off my keyboard. As I’m new to the publishing world, I don’t know completely know what I’d be allowed to share early in the process. I imagine tidbits won’t be a problem, and I plan to keep things mostly under wraps. I do plan to keep updates rolling on the progress—I will be moving into a workshop to dig in and revise this novel in a week’s time. This will push me into querying my work to editors and publishers this summer.

In regard to poetry, I’m toiling away. I’m polishing up a mini chapbook to query out to journals for their summer issues. I have some single poems to go out as well and look forward to the fruits that come out of this! To be transparent and share some background here—I’ve been submitting my poetry for about seven months now. I haven’t received my first yes. There are a lot of feelings that accompany rejection, and it wasn’t easy at first. I tried to just write these feelings off—like I’d normally do—but these emotions were different. I had to sit with them. I couldn’t hide them in a flurry of words. And so I sat, and I laid, and I ate. I came out of a barrage of rejection to writing some of the best poetry I’ve yet to share. I’m looking forward to the responses I get—whether it’s a yes or a no, I’m growing and honing my craft.