Scratching at the Silence

Posted on March 15, 2004 in Writing

The thing that is slowing me down is filling the brown notebook to meet tonight’s deadline. This month, despite extensions, I found myself with twenty eight pages to complete as of Friday. So I took out three paperclips, counted out increments of seven, and determined that I would finish them. I am down to less than seven pages now.

What do I fill them with? Drafts of poems, stacks of memories, notes about precious objects in my life, bits of stories. Despite the rapidness of my scribing, I believe that I have unearthed new material, new subject matter. Some of it will appear here. The rest shall be reworked for other venues.

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UPDATE: Made the deadline with three hours to go. Now I get to read a couple of novels that I have been putting off. (23:22)