Just when I was all ready (with my excel spreadsheet) to start writing my sestina for the afore-mentioned competition, I find out that the website for the 2011 event is still advertising last year's competition, and that no sestina will be necessary at all. Well...eff! I suppose it's for the best. This was gearing up to be a dangerous sestina.
The problem is, the details for the real competition haven't been made public yet. The only other competition I might have anything to do with in the coming weeks is on the theme of, "Perform something! Anything you want!" I kinda have that covered.
This is a problem because here's what I've discovered about myself as a writer - I have lots of ideas and inspiration, but I won't get anything done unless I have a deadline. Melodies, music - that'll all happen as a matter of course, but poetry will not (reliably) be written unless I'm on a deadline. And it's no good giving me arbitrary deadlines (as my don will tell you). I have to have some kind of competition riding on completion by the deadline in order to get things done.
Bleh. Does anyone want to have a friendly poetry-writing race or something? Loser bakes cookies for the winner? I mean I could, in theory, just buckle down and write one of the songs I've had bouncing around in my head. But that keeps not working. :-\
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Roses are red,
ReplyDeleteViolets are blue,
I'll bet I can write one
Faster than you.
You're on. Set the rules, and let's do it.