A different kind a Marathon.

[AChild]

Calling all cars, calling all bars. Lets see what you can do. I know how the marathon of thirty days works. Building skill upon skill never allowing the pen to get rusty. You force your hand to habit and it's shocking what comes out. What I am suggesting is a sit down. You and your paper and your pen. For three hours straight. How many poems do you think you can do?

Now were going on an honor system. Post were you where to complete this challenge, how many poems you wrote and the five best poems to come out of it.
I'll be doing mine next monday. Good luck to all those who want to play.

 

[Eluard]

I have done this a couple of times. Once I remember I produced one poem — I wrote it from 1.00 in the afternoon til 9.00pm at night. The other time I wrote two poems.

There was, on both occasions, a lot of staring at the wall, thinking.

 

[unpredictablebijou]

This is basically what I already do at least twice a week. But I really have trouble ascertaining whether anything in it is a poem until much later on.

Interesting challenge, though. Hope you get some takers. The only thing I'd be able to put in here is selections of gibberish from some random session, and that's not really worthwhile.

bj

 

[Angeline]

I have done this a couple of times. Once I remember I produced one poem — I wrote it from 1.00 in the afternoon til 9.00pm at night. The other time I wrote two poems.

There was, on both occasions, a lot of staring at the wall, thinking.

I feel kinda guilty about not having responded to this thread yet, but this has been my experience, too. I write the first draft in 15 minutes and then edit for hours. I figure that's about 90 iterations of taking a word out and then putting it back in. And like El said: lots of wall staring.

 

[annaswirls]

Three hours straight

Where is the green with envy smile?

I used to do this. Mostly by creeks. I could crank out half a dozen poems in an hour. But this is not about time travel. I could commit to 30 minutes.