h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

my first entry on this site, which i found out about only through the unfortunate confluence of events that led to me reading adams' posthumously released volume - should like to have met the man.

anyway, this is a note to self about the book of poems i am trying to put together, loosely thus far entitled 'exegeses and other human frailties'. the book will have two sections: one a collection of poems under the collective title 'exegeses' and a second ... well, work that one out yourself!

the exegeses poems are coming along but i need to maintain links between them and for them to reflect what i see reality as. one thematic device i have put into some minimal effect in some of the drafts is to havce the topic of the next poem the last word of its predecessor - ie, 'life' has "fate" as its last word, so the next in the series will be 'fate'. i also have love, loneliness, morality, people, food, journeying & sport/theatre (i am none too sure which way this one will jump, so i am hedging my bets with the title at the moment).

the second lot were started when i was travelling for six months in 2002 and i have continued to write some productive stuff which has received encouraging responses from my close social set whose opinions i might value in this matter...

what i really need to do is to stop procastinating, but that is easier written in a journal note to self, as i am doing, than getting on with the business of actually writing the stuff...

i was wondering what other writers actually do to combat this... i find that i write spasmodically and that it can occur at any moment - so if i am at work and feel words, i am too constrained and this process frustrates me. i then get overwhelmed with the looming sense of not actually being able to write and i wonder if i have anything to offer...

bit of a pessimistic opener! it will get better, i'm sure. perhaps i should at least write in here weekly and report progress.

well, so far i have three 'x' poems begun and some ideas lurking around the periphery of the pen for some of the others, and i rekkun i should probably have ten, maybe twelve poems to make the section work as a whole. about two pages of 12pt arial for both 'love' and 'life', the former of which has a certain final sound to what is there, with a teasing end that will easily bear addenda... in the other collection, i think i have maybe six or eight that are pretty close to finished - certainly four or five i would consider about finished, at leat before the collection is together and i can see which direction any polishing shine needs to take.

wish me luck!

astro xx : )