Writing - March 2022

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This is clearly not going to be a year when I write a lot.  This month will probably be just over 7K, meaning about 27K for the year so far, and if I continue at the same rate this will be just over 100K for the year, well below my goal of 135K.  I'm not sure how I feel about that.  I've always enjoyed writing, but at the moment I don't seem to have much in the way of inspiration.

I've written drabbles/ficlets for holmes_minor , watsons_woes , drabble_zone and 100words plus short fics for the three challenges on fan_flashworks .  And even ficlet_zone didn't provide me with many words, although Daydream Believer was fun to write. (Another ficlet, ACD Holmes).

I'm currently writing my Stage of Fools exchange fic, which I should finish this week - it just lacks the final scene, plus comma re-arrangement.

So, failing anything else, I'm sharing a poem I wrote as part of a short online course on poetry.  We had to take a poem written by John Keats 'Bright star, would I were as stedfast as thou art' and write a new poem ensuring that the word ending each line of our new poem was the same as that of the Keats' one.

Black cat, were I as confident in my art
  As you are when wandering in the night
Your confidence and my doubt set us apart
  For I guard my outpouring as an Eremite
My writing is a very hidden task
  And your song would reach abroad to farthest shores
As you assail your female friend of whitest mask
  In sounds which would frighten the fiercest Moors
You’re sure you’re welcome, confidence unchangeable
  While I in throes of doubt beat at my breast
The volume of your song does swell and swell
  But my words written lead me to much unrest
You share your song with all who take a breath
  My poems remain with me until my death