“Hall made a habit of rising early, devoting his first and best hours to poems, then turning to prose, much of it done for hire.”

I need this kind of discipline. I know I write poetry best early in the morning and right before I go to bed. I need to stop messing around with other forms of writing and various distractions (namely my husband, and not all of the distractions from him are ones I invite) during these periods of the day and use my time more wisely.

I wish I had the disciple for writing that I had for playing music. My playing, as a result of that discipline, was better ~ much better ~ than my poetry-writing is.

I’m going to get all that straightened out, though. I’m thinking of applying the same approach to my writing that I applied to my flute playing. I really don’t have anything that would stand in my way, other than myself.

I’m reading some essays by Donald Hall presently and he is another who fits this mold, if you can call it that.