NaPoWriMo 2.
March 27, 2008
Filed under Writing, books, poetry
Tags: Arts & Letters Daily, NaPoWriMo, poetry, ReadWritePoem, Writing
I stopped by Arts & Letters Daily and my head almost exploded. Seriously. Have you ever been there? All that text…my brain is bleeding.
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Now that I’ve decided to trail along behind the NaPoWriMo bandwagon in my own little red wheelbarrow, I’m, well, dare I admit, feeling excited, like I’m catching a wave(let) on the ground swell of anticipation rippling through the blogosphere. Which is a metaphorically messy paragraph and perhaps does not bode well….
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ReadWritePoem has a post today with a few form ideas to help keep the poems flowing, and, as someone who generally doesn’t find prompts helpful, these are great — I will definitely use at least two of them.
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Poems have been bubbling up of late, words, phrases — this could be just the impetus I need to get to work.
Oh, goodness. My eyes are swimming from that site. The Chronicle is really a terrible aesthetic crime.
I’m still meditating/contemplating/gnashing my teeth over this NaPoWriMo business. Do I WriMo or no? Who knows?!
Emma, yes — a crime! — I know there’s probably interesting stuff there, but when confronted by all that text, I’m reduced to Beevis & Butthead: “Uh. Words. Words. Words.”
As for NaPoWriMo, I don’t see any reason to set myself up for abject failure by committing to a poem a day — but I do want to make use of all those resources that will abound for the month to get myself back into some sort of regular writing practice. I really do want that. Sigh.
Marie–Thanks for the link to http://readwritepoem.org
I’ve already done the pi one–in the past, but didn’t know it had a fancy name.
I love invented forms and see several on the list that I want to try, beginning with the Pleiades.
Yes, Diane! — I’m hoping to attempt the Pleiades in the next couple days — that, or the fib… I think. Because the pi one also appeals…