Little Egret – Horseshoe Point
That’s it. The scramble to write a post a day and beat last year’s publication record for publication, is now over. I have thrown in the towel and will now blog when I feel like it. ironically, I may feel more like it when I remove the target I set myself. It was OK when I was keeping up and missing one or two, which were easily caught up. Once I got a week behind, and more to the point, did so without noticing, it was till within my capabilities, but I found I wasn’t particularly bothered.
The same goes for the numismatic writing. I let it lapse about a month ago and so far nobody even seems to have noticed that the Facebook page has had nothing new on it. This was just a pause due to the wedding, but as it went on I realised that I felt more relaxed. And when I realised that nobody had noticed, I realised that it didn’t matter. I started doing it to back the efforts of the member who set the page up, and tried to enlist the support of several other members, but none of them stepped forward to help. Eventually someone, who never raises a finger to help others within the society, will mention that it’s a shame we stopped doing it. I could illustrate that simple remark with many examples, but I won’t.
The poetry is still going OK. This morning I wrote one that I feel happy with and I have had two acceptances this week. It’s difficult to say where i am compared to this time last year because of the problem of defining “this time”. I’m close to my results for the first six months of last year, with one or two results still pending. I may well be exactly on target, but as I had a couple of disappointing results early on it’s a bit borderline. All I can do is keep trying. I’ve made 53 submissions this year compared to 45 last year, so I’ve been putting the work in, even if the success rate is down. This isn’t necessarily due to writing badly, I’m just trying new places and it can be tricky. However, it is good for me to make things harder.
Little Egret
A wise adaptation
As with poetry – if I do enough, some of it will be wise. 🙂
🙂
No comment today – I’m off to see if I can catch a little egret/
Having seen Great and Little Egrets, I looked up Medium Egrets and was amused to find the medium or Intermediate Egret can be found in Australia. Who thinks of these names?
There we are . . . you didn’t need any advice from me at all. Congratulations on all the submissions this year so far. That is a lot of work you have done.
I always need advice to keep me moving along, though I must admit it was surreal to get advice from you on getting enough sleep. 🙂 🙂 🙂
I am trying harder these days. However, I cannot seem to sleep more than 5 or 6 hours so going to bed late means I don’t wake at 3 or 4 in the morning which is awful.
I know the feeling. I’m getting back into a better routine, but it’s hard. My natural routine (which was great during lockdown) is work until 3am and sleep until 10. Unfortunately it doesn’t work so well in a world which wants to start around 8am. 🙂
Having seen Great and Little Egrets, I looked up Medium Egrets and was amused to find the medium or Intermediate Egret can be found in Australia. Who thinks of these names?
That was a comment for Paol – not sure how it got here – sorry.
Haha! They could have thought of something a little more exciting. Fortunately, the bird couldn’t care less what we call it.
Bird names are a mystery. A number of them being named after the Victorian ornithologists were probably the first of their type to be shot and mounted. 🙂
It sounds like you have chosen a path that will work for you, at least for now.
That’s the thing with paths, isn’t it? 🙂
I was beginning to vicariously feel the pressure of your schedule, so I am pleased that I can relax now.
Feel free to relax and rest your leg. I will do the same. – well relax, I can’t really rest your leg for you. I can feel my next project coming on – find out why there is a vicar in vicarious.
I thought I had commented on this post, but as I don’t see the comment, I guess I didn’t. Anyway, one post a week suits me just fine, and I can always write another one if something special happens.
This is true. 😉
well, I miss your posts when you don’t. you excel.at the slice of life post, mixing heart and humor and a dash of cynicism….like life
🙂 Thank you. I will be continuing, but need to set myself a realistic target – stimulating writing without letting it take over.
that’s reasonable
You’ve read my blog, you know how reasonable I am . . . 🙂