Andrew Philip was asking what NaPoWriMo was and where I heard about it.
The "sticky" post at the link page should explain everything. The idea is to write a new (draft) poem each day during April. You have to register with Poetry-Free-For-All to take part there. After that, it’s fun all the way. Except for the times when it feels like hell on earth.
I did it last year and felt it was really worthwhile. You can be an experienced poet or a rank beginner, but the difficulty of completing the challenge with one's sanity in place is the same either way.
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30 poems in a month? Quite challenging. Hmmmmm, thinking
Hi Rob,
on this subject of poem a day, you can have a poem a day page on Bewrite.net (I have one) and you dont have to write a poem a day unless you want. As you say, it drives you insane, and there are other jobs to do. I just put most of the poems I write on it, it's as good a place as any to keep them. One can only have so many homes on the net, but Bewrite is one of mine...oh and I linked to Surroundings from my This Week page on desktopsallye, & thanks for your link.
Ah, it all becomes clear. "April", as the great man said, "is the cruellest month."
Andy
Harry - thanks. I didn't realise someone invented this, although I suppose someone had to.
Paula - 30 drafts. But even that is challenging. I bet you could do it though.
Sally - Bewrite sounds interesting. I'll look into it. I gave myself a strict time-limit last year of 50 minutes a day to write each poem and managed to write 30 in the month. I'm going to try again. It's fun (in a certain way).
I'm glad you found George Szirtes's blog from my links, by the way. He is always good reading.
Andy - At least now we know what T.S. meant when he said that!
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