Usually I manage to structure my Mondays so they involve as little brain-work as is humanly possible. I just put chutney on some toast – usually that’s about as tough as my Mondays get. That, and turning pages of trashy novels.
Not this Monday! This Monday I’m doing all sorts of brain-work, and I’m not sure I’m OK with it quite yet.
There are decisions to be made today. I’m going to a slam tomorrow night to perform at their open mic in preparation for the State Library’s Australian Poetry Slam on Wednesday at the Balwyn heat. Both these events are quite big and scary for me – I haven’t done any poetry performance outside uni events, so while I’m not nervous just yet, I have a feeling I very much will be later. I have two pieces that I feel are quite strong, and I need to choose which is stronger. One has some humour. The other is a bit pretty.
I need to practice these pieces more so they’re totally drummed into my brain (brain-work…).
When that decision’s been made, I need to decide on an extract from Hold On, the story which is appearing in Page Seventeen, being launched on Saturday. I’ll be reading an extract at the launch, up to 3 minutes… I haven’t decided which three minutes yet. I think most logical is from the start of the story, because the chronological story is intercepted by flash-backs. But is that the strongest part of the story?
The following piece of brain-work involves writing up a pitch for a workshop I’ll be running before the end of the year in Northcote, through Express Media.
By the end of the day, I think I’ll be happy to head off to work and only think about filling fridges. By far too much brain-work for a Monday!
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But very nice brain work to have to be doing! (: Congrats on the publication, I hadn’t read where it was, but P17 is a heck of a nice journal, well done!
Thanks Phill! I’m pretty stoked, and you’re right, it is nice brain-work to be doing, I’m having fun.
Wow, I’m glad you’ve got lots of stuff going on! I feel a bit purposeless since uni has finished
, need to force myself to do some writing. I am doing the internship and I also got a new job at IGA, which is quite brain numbing but yes money… Should you know, write, yeah..
Hey! Where’s your internship? That’s awesome! Jobs over holidays are a bit of a drag but entirely necessary. My work’s just made me part-time and I’m not sure at all how I feel about it…
It’s OK, I haven’t done much writing either, just editing and reading. Holidays have only just started, there’s plenty of time.
Best of luck with the readings and the slam. I ended up deciding not to enter in favour of trying to keep up with NaNoWriMo,