30 days to get it write
01/11/2020Many years ago I got into the habit of setting myself challenges – a month without booze, 100 days of creativity, 30 days of gratitude. Somewhere, inexplicably, I stopped, abruptly on something like day 97 of a 100 day challenge. Recently I trawled through the results of a pass “100 days of writing” challenge and was amazed to find a whole anthology-worth of poetry. I shared most of it here – look for the poems dated 2015 specifically. It was strange to look back at my words and I wondered about the emotion behind some of the poems – especially…
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