Podcasting – The Internet of Words

January is almost at an end, and to maintain the momentum from 2022’s early morning productivity, it’s time to start making plans for February. What can you expect to see next month?

Starting February 10th, the Proper Bard Podcast goes into History Mode, as it’s time to understand what happened to allow me to get to the point in a career that still defines me as an ‘Early State Creative’. There’ll be a chance to share my first publication poem (and the fact it got a round of applause at the time) plus my adventures in local borough history. That will keep us going well into March and possibly beyond…

Then it is high time I updated my YouTube Channel, which we will ‘soft relaunch’ with an upgrade for my Introductory Video. It’s a lovely excuse to flex creative muscles in ways I don’t normally have time to do, plus on this occasion I’ve written a poem to accompany the pictures, because honestly that’s what I do for everything now. You can expect to see this premiering sometime after I have my first proper break post-Pandemic… let’s say after the 21st. I refuse to be more precise than that.

#HashtagPoetry will continue, and I’ll also get back to poetry reviewing and wibbling about the World, which at present could easily be a full-time job if someone was prepared to pay me for it. Oh, and at the end of this month, expect a small passion project to emerge surrounding the subject of Imaginary Band Names…

I’m beginning the slow process of returning myself to full ‘working’ capability this week, which means if you are subbed to the Newsletter that accompanies this website, you’ll be getting a message in your Inbox tomorrow offering you FREE STUFF. For now, however, the last seven days have been about forward motion, plus setting up new processes for our restart in September.

There now follows a short thread around allowing yourself permission to dream.

I applied for summat yesterday I'm pretty confident I won't get, because I don't fit what I think is the profile, and I'm far too political an animal to be accommodated by the establishment.

However:
— 🗨️ S Reeson 💭 Glorious Purpose for Hire 💬 (@InternetofWords) August 26, 2021

I don’t allow myself nearly enough time to dream any more, and being the kind of person who can rationalize failure before there’s even a chance for success is a pretty decent means by which all joy can be sucked from situations. However, with my work turning up on a Podcast this weekend, it does feel a lot like I’m making clear, unassailable progress. Even I’d struggle to make this anything more than a win, so this then begs the question of what to do next.

There’s been a piece this week that’s pushed mind and body out of the comfort zone as a result: it’s part prose poetry, part pure poem, and covers a part of my life I don’t really talk about very much, mostly because I’ve never really thought about it that much. Doing so this week therefore has been an exercise in using my newly-found objectivity to rationalize what was one of the most frightening experiences of my life. As it transpires, that also makes for quite interesting reading.

Talking about dreaming… 72% away from getting back into Podcasting… o/

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— 🗨️ S Reeson 💭 Glorious Purpose for Hire 💬 (@InternetofWords) August 26, 2021

It also allows me to think about a return to Podcasting, which I’ve really rather missed. Let’s see if I can persuade enough people next month that I’m worth both the time and the support…