Piles of Paper, Notebooks, Yellow Tablets!

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For the last several weeks, I have been facing the prospect of dealing with that stuff, some hidden in a big grocery sack, others in not so neat piles on the floor around my desk (It's a good thing Anne is a very patient woman).. All this paper contains my scribblings over many years, some of which I have stored in more legible form on my computer, but much of it was the beginning of a story, or a poem, some finished and abandoned, some just started. So, I dug all this out of my big filing cabinet with the intent of going through it, separating the redeemable from the utter trash and beginning to rework the decent and discard the rest. I am not good at overwhelming tasks, more prone to leave them lying than to attack them. But, in the last few days, I have begun! I even found some possible gems that I intend to polish and submit to poetry contests. I did submit some the other day, but so did hundreds of other wannabes. It's a waiting game, like so much else in life. I will hear about results in maybe three months. So, on with the reading and the recycling of paper. Are you one of those people who tackle big jobs and get them done, or a procrastinator like I am?