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About This Author
My name is Joy, and I love to write.
Why poetry, here? Because poetry uplifts its writer, and if she is lucky enough, her readers, too. Around us, so many objects abound to write about. Once a poet starts with a smallest, most trivial object, he shall discover that his pen will spill out what is most delicate or most majestic hidden inside him. Since the classics sometimes dealt with lofty subjects with a lofty language, a person with poetry in his soul may incline to emulate that. That is understandable. Poetry does that to a person: it enlarges the soul and gives it wings. Yet, to really soar, a poet needs to take off from the ground.
 
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Everyday Canvas #972381 added January 1, 2020 at 12:51pm
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In 2020
Prompt: Happy New Year! Prompt: What are your plans for 2020, this New Year?
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I don’t really make plans or come up with resolutions due to self-protection. This is because if I promise something to someone (including me) and can’t do it, I beat on me rather badly, and I am no masochist.
But do I want to do things this year? Yes. Several. At the beginning.
First, I’ll try to stay alive as that is the first rule for anyone of us.
Then, since I am a reader first and I read quite a bit as it is, I’ll concentrate on reading more of the classics this year, and I hope, works of better contemporary authors, which isn’t a given. Sometimes a brand-new author can come up with a knockout book while a famed award-winner produces a dud. Not being sure of the outcome, I’m crossing my fingers on this.
Then, I’ll try to finish writing the first draft of 2019’s NaNo novel. Although I wrote 54K in November, the story isn’t finished.
Then, I have had this habit of writing little notes on pieces of paper when an idea strikes or I come across a quote or something. Eventually, those notes made up such a big mess. They had taken up so much space, in boxes and such, that I threw away a big lot of them, but I thought the better of it. I thought I should keep what is left of them inside my purses and around my desk or stuck inside books and notebooks. So last month, I started copying them into a private item here in my WdC port. This will take some time but I want to finish or continue it. If I can finish it, I can copy the file into several places for future reference and delete the item here. I believe WdC to be more reliable than any Cloud space I have anywhere.
Another thing is I want to give away some things from my closet and the household items as I don’t want to turn into one of those crazed hoarders. These things I want to do, but I am not putting any pressure on myself to do them.
Other things, I want to keep the status quo and hope that nothing turns worse, breaks, and changes into something that would hurt or annoy me.
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