Writing Goals, Post-Book

All of these will probably be broken, modified, and otherwise transformed!

When the book is done, I will:

1) Keep sending out my poetry manuscript. Why, I keep asking myself, has it taken so long for this to happen again? Probably because it took so long to re-format, and because I didn't feel I was a poet anymore after a certain time in my life. That's changed and I am writing poetry again, slowly (an elegy for my beloved Maudie this time). Contained in this goal: keep writing poetry, do not stop.

2) Work on collaborative book with Mr. Strega, a much lighter tale than The Strega's Story. Mr. Strega is a marvelous creative writer, which didn't surprise me in the least. When we were first dating and talking on the phone, I asked him to go down to his bookshelves and read me the titles (hoping for a bit more than an array of science fiction--I was more than pleasantly surprised).

3) Get some articles done for Blogcritics

4) Think about the subject of my next book after the "sorbet" of my collaborative book with Mr. Strega is done. One subject has been "planted" at the end of The Strega's Story.

5) Oh, and pat myself on the back for getting a 400-plus page book done, having written barely a word of creative prose before taking classes at San Jose State.

6) Get back to writing three pages in my journal every day, which I have reduced to one page during the final leg of work on my book.

7) God forbid, take a class unrelated to writing or exercise.