Now that I have been accepted to medical school (yay!), it's high time to rejuvenate this blog. The cold weather in Buffalo has broken, hopefully for good, but it's hard to say, since this type of two-days-decent-one-week-cold has been happening for the past month or so.
While my running has suffered over the past month, my writing has just started to pick up. I began a story, which is going to be very hard to write, and will eventually require a gigantic amount of editing. I think I have gotten onto something here, but it's one of those times where I'll have to keep throwing stuff onto a page and hoping a few words, phrases, sentences, paragraphs, pages, and finally chapters coalesce into a cohesive whole that is not an inconsistent work.
Also, I looked back on how much poetry I have written, and saved to my computer, and it's quite a good deal...maybe 35 to 40 works. About half of these are terrible, just written because I could, and not anything to be impressed at. Most of those "terrible" works are sonnets, where the flow of the lines is bad and the subject matter is badly expressed. But there are some, the ones most recently written, that have some promise. So, I will start to compile those into a corpus, then set a dichotomy between the ones I like and the ones that could have promise when they are completely rehashed and written over again.
So, that is the goal for March. Also to start running on a daily basis again. More to follow. G.
While my running has suffered over the past month, my writing has just started to pick up. I began a story, which is going to be very hard to write, and will eventually require a gigantic amount of editing. I think I have gotten onto something here, but it's one of those times where I'll have to keep throwing stuff onto a page and hoping a few words, phrases, sentences, paragraphs, pages, and finally chapters coalesce into a cohesive whole that is not an inconsistent work.
Also, I looked back on how much poetry I have written, and saved to my computer, and it's quite a good deal...maybe 35 to 40 works. About half of these are terrible, just written because I could, and not anything to be impressed at. Most of those "terrible" works are sonnets, where the flow of the lines is bad and the subject matter is badly expressed. But there are some, the ones most recently written, that have some promise. So, I will start to compile those into a corpus, then set a dichotomy between the ones I like and the ones that could have promise when they are completely rehashed and written over again.
So, that is the goal for March. Also to start running on a daily basis again. More to follow. G.
