Hi all my wonderful weblog friends!

First, if you don’t know what I’m talking about regarding the twitter poetry/writing gig - then check out this post of mine from a couple weeks ago. It’s an invite to a new writing project I kicked off the 1st of this year - details in that post. Now, back to the point of this post.

I’m having a great time with this project. From the feedback I’m getting so are quite a few other folks, which is wonderful. And I’ve received numerous inquires about something that I left out of the original invite to the project.

And I left it out on purpose. Which seems like an odd thing to do so let me explain.

I left out my deep dark secret hope that perhaps there might be enough interest in the project and enough good work generated that eventually I might consider sponsoring some type of edited anthology of the works created.

And I did that because:

I have learned that if I am worrying/wondering/obsessing/ about what the potential future of a piece of work might be, I cannot fully (maybe not even mostly) focus on the creative process of the work itself. And the work suffers. And I enjoy the working much less, which is no good either.

From the advice I’ve received in person from established writers/artists, from what I’ve read by people like Ansel Adams and Freeman Patterson, and from my own experiences I suspect that this focus issue is pretty ubiquitous. I’m pretty certain it isn’t just me.

The advice is always the same - do the work, embrace the passion in the creative process and create. What to do with it can come later. And then one can give full energy to that ‘what to do with it’ work. And that is necessary also.

Even though what to focus on differs with the pursuit, I’ve found many endeavors are similar. Among other things, I’ve worked as an EMT, biochemist, & manager, I do writing for hire, and business management consulting, I create and market my own visual art, and I write and market my own poetry.

And while all of those things require different types of focus, different background information - none are served by me focusing on what might happen with whatever it is in the future.

And so, I really wanted to launch a writing endeavor that was focused on the pure joy of doing the writing. The joy of sharing new creations with other like minded writers.

For the moment I didn’t want to distract us. I didn’t want to mention the P word. I don’t believe there is a need for it. Things will unfold as it evolves. And it will be clear if/when the time arrives to take another step with the project.

That’s all. And yes, I realize I’m being a bit of an idealist. But thats good once in a while. Reminds me of what is possible.

So, thank you, thank you from the bottom of my heart to everyone who has inquired about compiling the work of the poetwist poetwitter ‘twitter me this’ project. I am grateful and thrilled by your enthusiasm for the project beyond that which words can express. Hugs, Hugs, Hugs & more Hugs!

My most sincere best,
Kayt

p.s. - capital letter cheers to those of you missing them!!

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