In January, a teacher at Second City, Joe Janes, started writing a sketch a day. I was so impressed by that, that I thought I might be able to kick myself in the but and get some writing done if I challenged myself in a similar way. I decided to write a poem a day and post it on my brianparis.com website. Well, right after I decided that, my internet went out, and I made a lot of excuses and wound up not even getting started.

Then last Friday as I was flying into Chicago, Joe found my blog and posted a comment asking where my damn poems were. I don’t know if it was that friendly kick in the ass or the fact that I was back in Chicago, but I started writing. It was a horrible week timing wise, but I have been posting everyday since then, woo, woo. It isn’t all poetry, and I am cheating with a multi-part story, but I have put something up there everyday. Even if it is just a sentence about bacon.