Just an observation

I am not complaining about not being able to write writing for once, just making an honest observation.

I come up with awesome first sentences to things that go nowhere. And the things I spend lots of time plugging away at? They all begin terribly.

This leads me to wonder if it’s just my reflexes as a poet, because poetry often starts all sizzly like that for me and the whole thing can be scultped out of that moment. Poetry, however, is so much shorter than prose and I think that’s where I am falling down.

Would this be such a problem if I’d actually ever bothered to learn how to write prose? Hmmm… Grad school might be a safe place to be during this recession… just sayin’

~ by weltschmerz on May 2, 2009.