Current Streak: 1 Day
Rampant words
Run page to page
Not staying still
On their set stage
So much to write
Yet not enough night
Where should they go
The writer’s plight
AUTHOR’S NOTE: Was just a couple months short of doing a poem every day for five years straight! Over the years I had done everything to keep the streak going. If I went to a convention, I’d write it first thing in the morning. When I went to Vegas for a music festival, same thing. I even paid for Wi-fi on a cruise to make sure I could keep posting! The day the streak broke, I was just having a day that was so perfect that writing the poem hardly crossed my mind, and then it was past midnight and I was like “Whoops.”
The last month or so that I was posting these poems, I found myself spending a lot of creative energy writing brief poems that, overall, I wasn’t satisfied with. It was taking a lot of time and energy just to figure out what I wanted the poems to be about! In recent days I’ve been finding myself better able to work on my other projects, such as writing a novel about VTubers and a musical based on the game Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days, without writing my daily poems. I’m not sure if I’ll keep doing this, but any time I do put poems on here, there will be a counter for how many days I’ve posted in a row, since it hasn’t been every day since the start of the blog anymore. For the record, I made it 1,772 days in a row before the streak finally broke. (Also, it’s technically past midnight on 9/19/2025, but I’m still counting this as 9/18/2025 for the sake of it being an anniversary post. I don’t know, fight me, lol).
Whether or not I do keep posting here, and whether or not I really start again now or later, this blog isn’t going anywhere. I started writing daily poems (technically a month before this blog even started) because I found myself in a state where I was absolutely unable to write for a month or so after my grandmother’s passing, so if I don’t post again tomorrow or the next day, I will certainly come back here and start again if I find myself in a similar state where I need to force myself to get writing again. I’ve also been thinking about posting updates for other things I’ve been working on, and maybe making this into more of a general writer’s blog. We’ll see what happens!
This is definitely the longest Author’s Note I’ve put on here (and it’s rare for me to do them in the first place), but seeing as it’s the five year anniversary, it seemed like a good time to pop in, say I’m not dead, and explain the hiatus (and why it might not actually be over yet). Also, it’s been half a decade; it would have been a shame not post anything, especially when this project has done a lot to make me a better writer. Music is another one of my hobbies (I mentioned the musical I’m making earlier, and I’m also making a soundtrack for my novel), and after a couple years of doing this blog, any time I sat down to write lyrics for a song I was working on, they would come to me so easily! So, if anything, you know, you probably don’t need to do it for 5 years, but I would actually recommend writing a poem every day for a while if you want to get better at writing songs or poetry. Keeping up the streak might get to be a slog at some points, but it will make things easier when there’s a bigger project you want to work on, or something you’re really inspired to do outside of this exercise. Even though I’m probably not going to be as gung-ho about this blog moving forward, I am glad that I did this, and I’m happy with how it improved my writing. I guess that’s kind of the conclusion I’ve reached with this experiment (though, like the Marvel movies after Endgame, this blog will probably still go on to some extent).
Anyways, thanks for reading this, and thanks for reading my poems! Stick around and see what happens next!
-Chris
A Life in Poems 