Creativity private and public

1. I've been thinking about why this blog works: it's private but could become public if I so decided to tell others. This liminal place suits me. I was very pleased to see in Sarah's blog last week the phrase 'writing is what makes us writers' not the being published bit, though that certainly helps. I was delighted to see my poem in the Folio last week, though I couldn't actually bring myself to read it. All I could think was that I should have changed the last line, rather than revelling in all the other lines.
2. Still on the theme of getting published... been looking up agents now that the NIP is almost there. I worked on it all day on Saturday, read it through, and made some lingering decisions that have been holding me up (but also keeping options open). I'm not going to anguish any longer, just get it finished and off. There's all the time in the world to fiddle with it after that.
3. And so with the ending of a major project comes the question what next? and there are other projects all lined up behind it. I want to concentrate on stories for the rest of the year, but then there's the 'Blue Azaleas' to revise, the Slovak novel, the garden one to do...oh, and another idea I'll tell you about tomorrow.