One more update on my WIP—another accountability post. I’m proud to say I maintained my pace of drafting one poem a day, and have what I think might be a complete draft. I’m not 100% sure it’s complete: there might still be room for a few more little singlet poems in there among the several linked-long-poems.
I have some revising and editing to do, of course, but right now I’m just happy at having finally competed a creative writing project of this scope. In the end, it took 70 individual poems to explore what I wanted to. Some are narrative, some more lyric or imagistic, but they’re all organized around a single theme.
Anyway, that’s that. I have two poems right now that definitely need revision, including the one I drafted today, but I plan on giving the whole thing a look slowly over the next week or two before I share it with any first readers. For now, I’m just basking in the satisfaction of having finished a draft of something new. Not a bad way to kickstart 2025.