Apologies for the dearth of posting here.  The semester ended and Stuff happened in my life and I had to take a few weeks to deal and also recover from all the hard work, assignments, and the thesis.  I admit I spent a lot of time sitting around playing word games on my computer, too.  My brain needed the break.

Writing is back on my radar, though, because a chapbook contest I intend to enter has a fast-approaching deadline.  I spent most of the day yesterday ordering the manuscript, writing the cover letter, doing the formatting, and so on.  It’s all ready to go — so now I will procrastinate for another week before actually taking it to the post office to mail.  I really need to do some submitting, too.  I haven’t submitted a thing for two or three months and have lots of work to send out.  I dislike the administrative parts of submitting, but if I don’t submit I can’t get published, so I must force myself to set aside a couple of hours and just do it.

Also, my fellow poetry students have been exchanging new work for feedback, and not only do I need to respond to them, but it’s lighting a fire under my tush to write some new work of my own.  Which is exactly why we pledged to stick together even after graduation.  Otherwise, we’d all probably slip into a fugue state wherein we’d spend hours a day watching soap operas and generally doing everything but write.  We know our weaknesses.