It’s been a week. Reed has posted every day for six consecutive days. It was jolly well was going to be seven, but we had that hiccup last night when the wonders of technology went all unwonderful for a few hours. I think she was vaguely planning on posting a long whinge about how bloody irritating the hot weather is getting. Clearly the Internet ran away in self defence. Aren’t you lucky?
And so, what, if anything, have we learnt from this little experiment?
1) If Reed has a deadline, she will meet it. She will procrastinate, bitch, snivel and stay up til gone midnight, but she will meet it. This is good.
2) Nevertheless, no coffee after 6pm.
3) As far as I can tell, she hasn’t bored anyone to tears yet. Either that, or you are being very nice out of an overdeveloped sense of pity. In any case, it is having a positive effect on her self-esteem. I am now on 24-hour bombast alert.
4) Reed is really, really, regretting letting her poetry-writing slide. I can’t even blame you guys for this - while she was merely carefully typing out Humanities she was getting all fired up with a desire to write an entire series of ‘place’ poems. You have been warned. Also, she now wants to finish that sestina that has been driving us BOTH nuts since May.
5) Blogging per se may not be quite as addictive as tobacco, but checking to see if there are any new comments definitely is.
6) Reed thinks that she is short-changing her public with any post shorter than 300 words. God help us.
Even I agree that the rest of this week will be frantically busy and that she has a lot to do in ‘real life’. So I am dropping the draconian ‘every day or I will make your life hell’ stance. Temporarily. On the understanding that if she takes to going a week in silence again, I will indeed box her ears.
Dear Editor, I join with you in being glad that Reed managed to meet her challenge dead-on. However, I find you very scary. Please don’t box her ears. Yours, A Concerned Librarian
Left by David B on July 18th, 2006
*giggles*
Please encourage Reed to post daily - I for one enjoy it.
And yes - you are right - checking for comments is more addictive than nicotine.
AB
Left by Aphra Behn on July 18th, 2006
*prods hopefully*
*waits for a bit*
*ambles off*
Left by Aphra Behn on July 21st, 2006
[…] This is the long-awaited sestina that has been driving me nuts since May. I wrote the first two verses, made up all the tables of end-word shifts, realised I’d screwed up the second verse, tried to re-write it, lost heart and buried the note-book under the bed. Not that it’d leave me alone. I found myself muttering ‘grass green grey stone white sky, sky grass white, err, oh damn,’ in the small hours of the morning. Time to fish it all out and try again. […]
Left by Out of ideas » Blog Archive » Sestina lente on August 26th, 2006