Sunday Thread: 2024 Writing Intentions
What are you most looking forward to doing with your writing next year? Are you going to start something new or cross that finish line? Or maybe you’ve got a big year of reading planned? Say it, claim it, own it, and then make it happen.
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It’s a big year for me. My book comes out on August 20. Between now and then I plan to finish transcribing a pile of poems from my notebook and organize some good ones into a manuscript. It’s exciting to have concrete plans going into the year.
I am going to take my second course in my MFA program after doing well during the Fall semester. I am excited. But on my Substack (which helps fund my MFA) I will be recording all of Shakespeare’s sonnets. At least once a week. And here is the SCARY part--I will be write a heroic couplet for each sonnet. At the end of the recording project I will have a collage poem of all the couplets, which will hopefully end up as a coherent work. I hope I have the stamina for this! I am afraid it will turn out to be a hot mess 😳🔥🫣 It will all be on my Substack called The Beauty of Things. zinagomezliss.substack.com. Honestly, kinda scared. But I think it also could be fun. Will take the leap.