Removing negativity

I realised as I was looking at my Twitter name I'd called myself 'Ian H Bad poet/Worse writer' and it got me to thinking. Who's to say that I'm either of those things? If I keep putting that sort of negativity out then there's unlikely to be much of a positive nature coming my way. So I changed it to say 'Ian H Poet & Writer'.

I'm sick of putting myself down, it's time I stood up and showed that I'm not the numpty that I sometimes portray myself as. No more hiding my light under a bushel. Onward and upwards with the light out in front.

People can decide whether my poetry and writing is for them or not but one person not liking something doesn't make it bad, it just means that whatever it is doesn't suit that person. I don't like lamb but I would never condemn someone who does.

I seem to be moving into a slightly more positive frame of mind having sent not only some poetry but also the manuscript for West goes West, which some of you will know I've been writing since Adam was a lad, to a publisher for evaluation.

Getting feedback for the poems and the story will be useful even if the publisher doesn't take it on and on the plus side they did ask for more poems to evaluate so, fingers crossed. At least I might have a good go at finishing WgW if the publishers give me some feedback or encouragement.

That's about it for now apart from to say that I've started using an app called woebot, an AI CBT tool which so far has been pretty good.

Peace and Love