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2016 goals
I’m going to publish this list so we can all laugh at my hubristic vision. Here’s everything I wished to do by the end of 2016, written at the very start of that year:
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W+P 2.1.20
Read to end 1.1.4. Thoughts:
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Finally, it is time.
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Happy new whatever
I’m fighting a cold that’s too small to complain about, but unignorable, and this is the first proper break I’ve had since like February last year, so it looks like 2020 is going to be a slow ramp-up rather than a storming out of the gates.
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Jan 1 2020
Hello again. Once more around the sun. I’m looking forward to it.
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2020. Living in the future.
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Poetry/Life update
So, I’ve just submitted my six poems for the fourth module of my MA. I’ve got a dissertation to write between now and December (which is basically 15-20 more poems). However, the taught component is done, so essentially it’s time to figure out the next thing.
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Books 2016 and #TryPod
This is a long and recommendationy post, so I thought I’d do a wave at the top of it. Hi! I am well. Still in Manchester, still getting slowly better at putting words in a coherent order, still broke. Tonight, I eat curry.
I was going to do a post in January about the many many books I read last year, but I couldn’t find an angle on it. Suffice to say, I read a lot (about 130). That sound like bragging, but it’s already March 2017 and I’ve barely read one. Anyway, here follows the books I loved:
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Monster Mash #fridayflash
#fridayflash, wordbunches on a Friday. Haven’t done this in a while. This week’s prompt is “Hallowe’en” obviously.
When I first stitched you up, I wasn’t sure it’d work out. But you found your rhythm quickly, after that first jolt, and I envied you. I worked for so long to make you up, I unmade myself along the way. All that writing, reading, digging up the past, didn’t leave much room for a personal life. I had someone, I think –an intended? – but that hardly seemed to matter. I think I treated people very poorly, back then.
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Almost halfway there
It’s a hot and sunny day in Manchester. It’s just over a year since I first visited, with the feeling that I was about to spend a lot of my time here. My current lease ends in three weeks’ time, and I’ll be in Warwickshire for the summer, but I’ll be back to finish up my MA in September. I’m nearly halfway through the course, and we’re nearly halfway through the year, so it’s a good time to see where I am.
James David Ward 
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