Just a quick note. I will reply to comments soon, but for now I’m having to rest my hands. Even clicking a mouse button is currently a bit sore. I can use a different finger to do it but operating a mouse with different fingers or with two hands causes extra complications.
The same goes for typing – even using different fingers imposes strain on the sore joints. Last night I used a hot wter bottle but I’m not sure it helped. Today at work has been a bit of a trial, though arthritis was only part of that, and not necessarily the worst part.
On the plus side of the leger, I have had another acceptance, which ws for a tanka prose I ws quite pleased with. That’s often the kiss of death as editors quite often reject poems I am pleased with.
Aren’t you pleased with them all? I hear you ask. In truth – no. There is usual one in three that is just there to make up the numbers and the other two are often OK, but don’t really excite me once they are done.
If you wanted me to sort out poems I am really happy with, I expect that out of the roughly 150 I have had published, less than 15 would be ones I was really happy with.
I suppose that’s always going to be the way of things – we are always fated to want to do better.
I will stop here. My clumsy fingers just wiped out all my words and I had to search drafts to find it again. It happens infrequently and I can never remember how to do it. Fortunately I was able to find it. This was very dis-spiriting.