Dry Periods Have Led That Expanding My Writing Life

I have had dry periods in my writing life. I can't say why that is but it does happen. Sometimes it's good to step back and see where I am.

I took up poetry writing a year and a half ago.  I felt that my short stories, essays and commetaries had grown stale. A lot of imagination? Maybe. I saw it as a chance to branch out by tackling another genre. What it has done is expand my writing. I found that some of my short stories can be written as poems and/or prose. I find that the reverse is also true . What has resulted is that my writing has more depth and quality to it. I'm venturing into emotional settings that I was reluctant to go into.  There's more personality and emotions rather than just mere details and simple story telling. 

I have had a long interest in playwriting. I have writing a few short plays in the past. Now I'm pursuing a full length play. Tackling classics such as Dante's Inferno, the Greek and Latin poems and plays, and modern poetry and essays have reinvigored to try my hand. I just have to tackle one thing at a time because my mind can be like a runaway train.