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