I hadn't realised that I had fallen into a bad habit of using too many commas in my poems. I never used to, so it has crept up on me over the months. Luckily Helen Ivory pointed this out to me in my last assignment for her course, and, I've been going back over some of my poems to see how bad the damage is. It's not looking good!
On that note, Happy 2016, and my resolution is to 'watch those commas'. I've put a big pink Stickie on by desktop to remind me. It sits next to a Stickie with advice from Jo Bell 'make the first line interesting'.
The picture is of wind chimes made of ceramic bells for sale at the market in Lyon where we had a few days just after Christmas. They were very magical and I regret not buying any. I thought they would probably break on the way home.
I read a beautiful poem the other day on Josephine Corcoran's blog And Other Poems, by Mark Totterdell called Leaf, which has inspired me to carry on ... I didn't know his work but will search further.
Apologies for the randomness of this post. I think it's because I'm trying to gather my thoughts after Christmas and also to get some order back into my life, with a busy few weeks ahead :-)
