by MNLNovember 9, 20176:29 pm

tanka: on writing everyday

sleepy, gotta rush
prompts, challenges, daily poems?
what was I thinking?
writing everyday? oh gawd!
wait! what? finished after all!

tanka by M.Nakazato LaFreniere
painting by Auguste de la Brely

Painting: Young Woman Writing
by Auguste de le Brely (1838-1906)

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Dave Kingsbury on November 10, 2017 at 5:43 pm

Sounds a good, er, plan … actually, it’s better than a plan – it’s responding to the world as it is, most plans you hear about don’t seem to be working! – I think we’re all looking for something natural and organic to emerge … yeah, sounds a good plan!

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  MNL on November 12, 2017 at 5:06 am
  
  lol, thank you! (still feeling befuddled by the word plan for something I do so randomly but wow, it’s great that someone thinks I’m following a plan. I don’t know why that makes me happy but it does.)
  
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Hassan Zada on November 10, 2017 at 4:18 pm

Nice Mary 🙂

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  MNL on November 12, 2017 at 5:04 am
  
  Thank you!
  
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    Hassan Zada on November 12, 2017 at 5:40 am
    
    🙂
    
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Dave Kingsbury on November 10, 2017 at 8:08 am

I write when the ideas come … haha, still waiting! Nice tanka, very true about blogging!

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  MNL on November 10, 2017 at 12:42 pm
  
  Glad you like the tanka, D! Thank you. I gave up waiting on the ideas, lol. I lost the key to my mind’s filing cabinet long ago. I sit down at my keyboard and my mind’s a blank! So I pop a random word into google and then see what pops up under news, images or whatever. I envy people who know what they are going to write about when they sit down but I’m not one of them.
  
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kasswoods on November 9, 2017 at 9:31 pm

I want to be writing daily! I often wonder what I was committing to by writing 3 times a week!

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  MNL on November 10, 2017 at 12:33 pm
  
  I tend to write too long so initially I just committed to writing “regularly” which actually turned out to be erratically, lol. You do much better than I do, K, as you write regularly. Once I started writing haiku, it was short enough I found myself writing everyday and sometimes the haiku would precede my long essay. My long writing is still erratic. What I find some days is that I feel like, oh gawd, why am I doing this? but once I start writing, it just flows and then I’m glad I did, especially on “long” days because I never know what I’m going to write. The surprises in the writing keeps my mind perky.
  
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