Writing in Snow

The first Friday in 2018

Istiqlál (Independence), 7 Sharaf (Honor) 174 B.E. - Friday, January 5, 2018 about 1:03 P.M Pacific Time

I started the Dear Me letter a couple of days ago. I wrote the first draft by hand, and then put the second draft in a word document on One Drive. I haven't printed it off to read it, I will do that this afternoon. Yesterday, I determined some of the items I need to edit or rewrite, and I placed those in "Items to Rewrite and/or Edit" . I have one poem I started last year that I didn't finish. That poem is in "My Life Is A Poem"  "Thunderbolt" , which is set to private. It's a prose poem, so I only have four paragraphs to finish. In that poem, I'm experimenting with the form which is a combination of prose and acrostic.

I started January off on a writing frenzy. I have written a poem and posted an entry everyday since January 1 to The Daily Poem contest, I posted three time this week to my offsite blog, and I posted everyday to, at least, one of the blog group I belong to. I also wrote three other poem and a short story, and, in addition, I posted to this journal and Welcome to my Weird Life. I am on the second draft of my Dear Me letter for January's official contest. I will finish that and submit it this weekend. The only issues I have, right now, is staying off of Facebook. I have logged into it and updated my status more than once over the last few days.

I keep looking at the 18 items I listed to accomplish this year. I keep wondering if there are too many on that list. I have my doubts that I can do all of them, especially the one about walking around the block. I think the best thing to do, before finalizing the Dear Me letter, is to say some prayers. Maybe instead of submitting the letter this weekend I should submit it on Monday or Tuesday of next week. I haven't placed a copy of it in my writing.com port yet. I was waiting to do that until I finalized every thing I wanted in the letter.