For me for the moment because this is largely about therapy. Creating something, even something primarily derivational, will be unfamiliar and I half-hope, helpful.

 A sample of projects thought about with varying degrees of seriousness over the past year:

 

• A book on Lawrence (bad idea for a number of reasons)
• A book on Beckett (better idea for a number of reasons, although not without possible setbacks and calamities)
• A poetry analysis website
• A monthly literary essay website (both this and the poetry site would be based on a new critical theory which would become gradually discernible to the reader)
• Three ideas for creative prose works
• Poetry
• Two ideas for short pieces of music

 
Progress?

 
Variously abandoned. Most have nothing to show at all. Some have a few notebook outlines. A few of the poetry analysis pieces made it to a first draft. There are poems which are clearly some way before they could be called a first draft (think version 0.01). I do have a 12 tone scale I am proud of though.

 

Why a pretty complete failure to produce anything? Many reasons probably but the most overwhelming I feel with the benefit of hindsight is that I comparatively little experience of sustained and even vaguely disciplined writing (outside of my work where, frustratingly, I have written a great deal which is dry, technical and most ephemeral).

 
So this is an attempt to write regularly. That’s all. And I would really prefer you not to dwell on it too much for now, because to say I posses a half hope about its success is probably an overstatement.