A bit of self-esteem boosting

[eveglass]

Okay, so maybe it takes me a month to sew a simple apron-dress that doesn't even fit very well, maybe my attempts at fabric dyeing wind up with candy-colored chemises that I'm halfway embarrassed to wear, maybe I screwed up a friggin' frozen pizza tonight by forgetting to take the cardboard backing off...

...but damn it, I wrote a 216-line poem based on an actual period story, in actual period meter, in less than five hours. That's gotta be worth something, right?

(For the curious, it's a fun story from the Golden Legend featuring St. Basil, written in enjambed rhyming couplets of iambic tetrameter, the same meter I used for my poem about St. Christopher.)

Comments

[arathreel.livejournal.com]

We all have different things we are good at. Don't look atmy life and think I am that amazing for whatever I do. You are fabulous at being a bard and I am heartily jealous that you can do all you do (and memorize it!).

[eveglass.livejournal.com]

As John says, skills reside where they do. You *are* amazing at what you do, and don't let no one take that away. (See? That's me trying to write in slang before I'm properly caffeinated. I don't think it worked too well. *grin*)