The factory is renovated.

The sun is setting on another beautiful day in Kona. The yippee dog two houses down is alerting the neighborhood of its existence over and over and over and over and over... My dogs are napping in front of the screen door, tired from their day at the beach, and I am plodding through my to-do list, realizing that once again I have forgotten to buy milk (no White Russians for me).

Besides the milk, another item looming on my list is to submit my poetry. I've missed a very important deadline this year, in fact just days ago. The 2010 edition of Edge had their deadline of Oct.1 and because I kept putting things off by doing other things, like getting my scuba certification, learning how to sail my new boat and teaching an intro to technical theatre class, I did not submit anything. No poetry. No photography. Nothin'.

Now all these other activities are well and good, but they don't include writing or, just as important, submitting.

Oh sure, I started off the year in a productive stride, having received 9 rejections in a matter of months, but really that's not productive enough. I need to become a factory of poetry. Words churning out of my mind and into my notebook, out from the notebook onto the computer, edited down and sent out to every publication I can.
Sounds great doesn't it?

But while I was set on submitting, I was neglecting the basis of everything- the writing. So I slowed my submissions (see stopped all together) and focused on my writing. That lasted a week.

All is not lost, though. Having recently seen the revamped website at www.tahoewritersworks.com and Bona Fide Books, I am newly inspired. Hence the revamped blog.

Cheers for now, I'm going to work on some poetry.