I’m doing NaPoWriMo again this year. Like last year, I’ll be posting NaPoWriMo inspirational poems here and at Vary the Line, and linking to cool prompts at sites like Read Write Poem. I won’t be posting my poems (I want to be able to submit them for publication later) but I’ll be talking about what [...]
A few wee bits of writing news: I’m the editor, so this doesn’t really count as a publication credit, but I reprinted a scifaiku over at 7×20 (and am taking submissions). Also, Read Write Poem’s abecedarian prompt has inspired me to work on a poem featuring words between lane and suicide, which I hope to [...]
A wonderful prompt from Read Write Poem (“what I could never tell my mother“) has me thinking about secrets and this.
Progress: Yesterday I wrote a pantoum that plays off Emily Dickinson’s “Hope is the thing with feathers” and today I wrote a cinquain. Prompt for today: Read Write Poem provides words to use. Mirrored at Vary the Line.
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Progress: Wrote a deliberately shitty poem on Monday just to get it done, and yesterday wrote a mediocre pantoum which might be salvageable. Tonight, instead of writing a poem, I worked on website design and went out to dinner with Alan. I’ll try to catch up (yet again) tomorrow. I could write another deliberately shitty [...]
Progress: Well, I’ve been sick. I even took yesterday off work, and I have to be really sick to do that, since – as a temp – I don’t get sick time, and (instead of writing poetry) slept and tried to keep my electrolytes up. I had written a poem about cheese (after the G.K. [...]
Progress: The object poem went so well yesterday that I decided to try another today, and I’ve just finished “An Argument Against Brussels Sprouts.” I think I may do a whole series about food. This is fun. Please feel free to suggest foods about which I may have unexpected depths of pathos and/or passion. Next [...]
Progress: Just finished an intensely sexy pantoum inspired by this prompt. I’m still one poem behind (from Wednesday) and hope to catch up tonight when I get back from my afternoon errands. Edited 9:05 pm to add: I just finished a fairly silly little poem about Peeps, so I’m now caught up. Mirrored at Vary [...]
Progress: None. I watched the peregrine falcon who sometimes hangs out on the balcony on the 11th floor of my workplace, instead of writing. Tonight is trivia at the Barley House (pretty much the only thing going on in Concord, NH all winter long) so I don’t expect to get much done. I’m planning to [...]
