Angeline
Poet Chick
- Joined
- Mar 11, 2002
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Hello poets and season's greetings! I hope you're all having a good end to the year, whatever you do (or don't) celebrate. I'm so happy to be active here again after a long, unintended hiatus (#$%& firewalls 
), and I so want to get back to regular writing here. How about you?
Who's interested in participating in a poem-a-week marathon in 2023? Tzara started us doing this a few years back. We've done it a few times and it proved quite successful. People wrote together and inspired each other throughout the year. If you write every week you end up with 52 poems (enough for a chapbook if that's your goal) and a great experience of collegiality with others who love writing like you. And of course there's mutual inspiration, potential for workshopping, laughs, cheap thrills, empathy, all the things!
If you sign on you agree to try to post a poem in the official thread each week of 2023. Note I said *try*! No one is going to think you're awful if you miss some weeks. Just do your best. The same is true for quality. We all want to write polished, publication ready poems, right? Yeah that rarely happens for me, either. Just do your best. If 52 (or however many) first draft poems works for you, fine. With a group of participants there's always opportunities for feedback and workshopping. And whatever form, length or shape, erotic or non-erotic poem you choose to write is welcome. There are some great resources here if you want to go beyond free verse. As long as you follow Literotica and forum guidelines it's all good.
So what say you? Are you in? If you are say so here. Don't make me write alone!
And feel free to add questions, comments and suggestions here too. Let's get poetic together! ā¤
), and I so want to get back to regular writing here. How about you?Who's interested in participating in a poem-a-week marathon in 2023? Tzara started us doing this a few years back. We've done it a few times and it proved quite successful. People wrote together and inspired each other throughout the year. If you write every week you end up with 52 poems (enough for a chapbook if that's your goal) and a great experience of collegiality with others who love writing like you. And of course there's mutual inspiration, potential for workshopping, laughs, cheap thrills, empathy, all the things!
If you sign on you agree to try to post a poem in the official thread each week of 2023. Note I said *try*! No one is going to think you're awful if you miss some weeks. Just do your best. The same is true for quality. We all want to write polished, publication ready poems, right? Yeah that rarely happens for me, either. Just do your best. If 52 (or however many) first draft poems works for you, fine. With a group of participants there's always opportunities for feedback and workshopping. And whatever form, length or shape, erotic or non-erotic poem you choose to write is welcome. There are some great resources here if you want to go beyond free verse. As long as you follow Literotica and forum guidelines it's all good.
So what say you? Are you in? If you are say so here. Don't make me write alone!
And feel free to add questions, comments and suggestions here too. Let's get poetic together! ā¤
