In 2019, I had never thought of myself as a very hard worker, even as I finished out my second year at university. I have always been clever, creative and talented, but I'd coast by on those things a lot. Unless it was something I was really excited about. And “Escapril”, a daily poetry challenge hosted online by author Savannah Brown, fit that bill excellently. Each day had a unique prompt to follow and all you had to do was write the poem and post it.  The month blurred by but was filled with late nights of hustling, hunchbacked over my phone, frantic to get my poem out and up. That May, I mashed together my own set of prompts to keep up the daily habit. I had never been so consistent. I came back in the Fall and created prompts based off of the different product labels at Lush. My “Wintry Words” tied me over until “Escapril” year two…I loved it. The space I'd created for myself to enjoy was bliss. There were missed “deadlines” and plenty of overthinking and oversharing, but Musings of Kat took on a life of its own to me. My little baby. Proof, to myself, that I am a driven, passionate person with so many more creative capabilities than I even know still.

I took every creative writing course I could during undergrad, I worked hard for my English minor, followed Escapril for years, and have posted nearly 400 poems. I even made monthly prompts that a few fellow poets followed too. My tiny splash in the river of the written word made a ripple I’ve been proud of ever since.

      There is dust on my desk, it’s true. I have an unfinished draft of my first anthology sitting on my computer, begging to be revised and revived. I have been quiet… but I have never run out of things to say. How ever could I?

 

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