Looking Back to Look Ahead

My week in review-June 19 to June 25

Starting off this week’s reflection with a pretty vulnerable poem. This was from a prompt in Ethical ELA featured in the Open Write for June. It was titled When I Grow Up. Here is my poem:

To be perfection

Without tightness in my chest
no frozen body filled with racing thoughts
with everyone liking
                          valuing
                          remembering

without clutter
without attachment to every
                                                   little
                                                   thing
                                                   I
                                                   own

with a cup of coffee without anxiety
without procrastination
          so I can finally
          write that book

with a house full of cats
without a full literbox

without a never-ending tbr
           because I read them all
                                                       (but there will always be more books)
          
Without annoyance
           when she begs to play all day
           games I don't understand
           when I crave time to read 
                                            to write
                                                          (but would I anyway?)

To be perfection 
is to not be myself

or rather

I am perfection
         just
         the 
         way
         I 
         am.

 

I am really working on my perfectionist tendencies-especially by not taking things too personal, receiving feedback on my work, and not letting my mind and insecurities get in the way.

Now onto my week!

You can read more about each of these in my blog post linked below:

Reading Life

I finished 6 books last week! My favorite read would have to be YELLOWFACE by RF Kuang-but I must also add IF HE HAD BEEN WITH ME because I just needed a sad book and this one was it!

I have a lot of books I want to read this week, but top priority is FOURTH WING. I am weird and waiting on a perfect moment to binge it, but it will happen.

Legit KidLit

Legit KidLit is taking a break for July and August, but we had an awesome LIVE draw off episode with 4 amazing authors. We are excited to use the next two months to recharge the creativity and get new ideas.

Goals

I have a lot of goals for this week and I have a new journal set up to help me focus. Here are my top goals and tasks:

• Reorganize my poems for Draft 10 of my novel in verse

• Make note of where new poems are needed with ideas in said draft

• Read Fourth Wing

• Cleaning and picking up around the house

• Taking care of myself-body and mind

And that’s pretty much it for me! What are your goals for this week?

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