Hey there poqueteers,
Anyway, I've slacked off on sham's muse for some reason or other. Poetry projects can be really tough to sustain because I am not much of a poet and I'm embarrassed how bad of a writer I can be. It is very discouraging to read drivel and think to myself that I'm just being self-absorbed. On the other hand, everything comes with practice. Writing is a practice. So, each poem is a practice, and also kind of an exercise in my writer's mind. If I don't exercise my writing skills daily, well, I feel it. So, I have to write every day, whether here in Sham's Muse or in my own fictional world. I realize the public nature of this blog means that my "practice" is visible to the world at large. So, I want to apologize to anyone who happens upon this blog and thinks that I would be better off storing this stuff privately. Trust me, I write far more than I scribble down here -- I just put little poems that come off the top of my head and seeds of poems I scratch out on scraps of paper here. The more serious work (not poetry, but fiction and such) is safely stored on my hard drive.
In case you are wondering what the poetry project as of late is, I am trying to write poems that do not really end or that end with a discordancy. If you'd like to try it out, please join me. Misery and amateurishness love company :)
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