A thread to share what you're currently writing, what you're planning, what ideas you're pondering, imagery you're desperate to use in a poem, lines you know belong in a poem but you just can't seem to write said poem. You might even find inspiration for your own poem or realise your poem needs to go in a new direction.
I'm currently writing a poetry about lifting my nephew. It's not going in the direction I thought it would go but sometimes that happens!
I can't wait to hear what everyone else is working on!
Good luck with completing your chapbook. I want to put one together sometime.
I have a chapbook about I’ve been playing around with, but the space between completion of each new poem for it is long enough to see a change in style, perspective, and skill from the last. So as I come to review, I think “oh no - none of these are any good...I’ve got to start over!”
it’ll come together one day
Currently compiling my first collection of poems. When I started writing it all poured out, different subjects and styles and it took a while for me to find my groove but I feel like I have a bit of footing now. This collection is made up of a retrospective look at the relationships I've had. The good, bad, the fleeting and committed and how they impacted my life and changed me as a person. I'm hoping that the theme comes across, and it doesn't look like a bitter burn book - which it absolutely isn't meant to be! 🤣 I have two other collections planned for the future based on the other subjects that have dominated my writing, but it's a lot harder to compile and edit than I thought it would be. And I'm slightly terrified by the prospect of self publishing, cover design etc.
Recently I've been writing some poetry each day, just first drafts on my phone. Will let the poems sit for a while and then write them up on my laptop and edit. Next year or perhaps the year after I want to put together a chap book of poetry, hopefully the first book of several.
Other than the continued launch of the forum, I’m also planning the poetry radio station.
i have 3 collections in the works, but I’ve not touched them in nearly a year 😢 I’m sitting on a collection of 5 short stories to do with my fantasy universe called Nerdians, but again the file hasn’t been opened in so long I’ve forgotten what it looks like!
Various other ideas for projects lurking in my brain too! But taking it one thing at a time and giving the Cove my full focus at the moment.
Great idea for a thread by the way!
I wish you good luck on your project, sometimes poems go in directions we didn't intend for them to go, but then you can find something else wonderful in that new direction.
I'm working on a project written across multiple poems where it tells the story of an immortal and a mortal person. The first meeting, falling in love and the unfortunate end, when the mortal dies and the immortal lives on. Right now as a student i haven't had much time to work on this, but I'm slowly writing down ideas for it.
Having a community like this is making me want to work on this even more!