I think there can be some benefit to being unfocused in my writing. I am currently working on two short stories (one being for the First Lines contest…see below). I am also working on a poem. I have been alternating between these three pieces, going away from them–coming back to them. While I normally would find this difficult in that it would be too messy, I’m rather enjoying the variations.
It’s fun to be undisciplined in my writing. I am actually working on being a bit more reckless…taking less time to craft a single sentence, so that I can just get a story out on paper. I can always go back to do the wordsmithing.
Focus. Hocus pocus.