It’s a rainy grey May Day but frankly we need the rain so I’m good with it. I’ve been trying to straighten a bit and not get overwhelmed by it. In awhile I’ll go get things ready to sew.
It was a good month of poetry writing. Choosing a theme before hand really helped and I noticed that the atmosphere of the poems was very similar. Often I’d sit at lunch and not have too much of an idea to start with so I’d ponder the theme and my NaNoWriMo story and think of something to say on those two things. Spinning out the poems along the lines of the last problem to solve in the NaNo will be good in moving along the story to its end AND it has given me an idea for the title (bonus!)
Given my tendency to work in series (although some cluck over my staying with an idea… it’s called a series for a reason folks!) using a theme to connect a bunch of things is not odd at all. Ideally, working in a series should let you try different things, see different sides of an idea while giving enough constraint to put the idea center stage rather than the method. That’s my view of it, anyway.
You can swing out in oval loops past the original boundary of your idea but it’s all connected in the center as the pendulum slides in and out, looping around to new areas and connecting to the start.
