Moving On

Something quite interesting happened here. I was about to write a blog post about how I've been only writing  poetry for a while, when I suddenly started doing other things as well... While writing the post, of course. Anyway, here goes.

I've been focusing a lot now on my poetry, writing in both Finnish and English. One reason for this is simply the fact that I'm so terribly busy with school work, and whenever I'm not wasting my time on that, I want to relax and let my mind cool off for a while. This doesn't work out that well, though, since I have actually not been this inspired for... Well, for a long time now.
I was actually interested in participating in this one poetry competition, but that project had to be aborted, since they wouldn't accept any sort of online payment, and our country does not want to send money to them by mail or by checks. Maybe next year, if I remember... The poem I would have sent is a sort of sonnet version of the poem Homesick I already put up on the site some days ago.

And then, when I started writing this blog post, I remembered to put a poem (On Love and a Lost Chance, also up on Antold Story) up on Fictionpress, and noticed that I actually had there the first chapter of a story I've been translating, just waiting to be set free, and I let it out right then and there. No comments so far, but a fair amount of viewers.
Anyhow, I had a notion in my head that I had already managed to translate at least two chapters, and had to go through a lot of trouble to find the files (that I then found to be on my pendrive, just sitting there waiting). Eventually I did find them, of course, and got the translation bug to bite me again. So I started translating the third chapter. Just a page or two, though, since it was so late at night. (As always, my favorite time to write is closer to 1 in the morning, unfortunately...)

And now, just a moment ago, I surprised myself by writing three more 'chapters' on Sparks and Flames! I wouldn't give me much credit on the quality, though. I'm having problems with my facial and neck muscles, so that the whole of my face and head and shoulders are so stiff even my mind is not working well.
"I feel like, from my usual brain capacity, only 10% is working today."