NaNoPoMo Challenge Support Thread

[wildsweetone]

i spotted this idea on another poetry site during my ramblings around the 'net recently and wondered if anyone wanted to try the challenge. (the idea originates from the National November Writing Month - aim to write 50,000 words in the month - i think it was 50,000.)

our challenge:
write one poem per day for the month of November.

short notice i know, but well...

anyone up for the challenge?

i'm going to give it a go (and if i don't get one done each day, i will try hard to catch up so i have 30 at the end of the month).

 

[champagne1982]

i spotted this idea on another poetry site during my ramblings around the 'net recently and wondered if anyone wanted to try the challenge. (the idea originates from the National November Writing Month - aim to write 50,000 words in the month - i think it was 50,000.)

our challenge:
write one poem per day for the month of November.

short notice i know, but well...

anyone up for the challenge?

i'm going to give it a go (and if i don't get one done each day, i will try hard to catch up so i have 30 at the end of the month).

I would, but I'm gonna try the novel thing.

My muses are not amused.
I did finish my pantoum for the Planets' challenge, though. You'll see it later.

 

[Liar]

Yep NaNoWriMo is 50.000 words. Iä'm signed up for it, but I haven't made up my mind wether I'll actually start or not. If I don't, a PoMo seems perfectly all right to me.

 

[My Erotic Tale]

i spotted this idea on another poetry site during my ramblings around the 'net recently and wondered if anyone wanted to try the challenge. (the idea originates from the National November Writing Month - aim to write 50,000 words in the month - i think it was 50,000.)

our challenge:
write one poem per day for the month of November.

short notice i know, but well...

anyone up for the challenge?

i'm going to give it a go (and if i don't get one done each day, i will try hard to catch up so i have 30 at the end of the month).

awww the beat of my drum...

the first year I was here I knew squatters doodle about nothing
spent most of my time writing stories...
this year I self challenged myself to write a poem a day for one year and I may not have 365 by the end of the year but it will be close, to read and write my little learning butt off. <reading and writing, reading and writing>

next year my goal will be to only submit the good poems per week <more selective><grin><not just write and express> but choose the best poem of the ones I wrote that week

then year four I should graduate to writing only good poetry <laughing> which is always balanced by the stories I am writing now and have planned to write next year.

so what do we do...post them here?? submitted or not? submit them as NANO #1; day one poem ~ the wind, ??? or just keep track? <grin> extra points for more than one poem a day.

 

[average gina]

I've signed up for the novel thing, too. I have a solid idea, but it's a drop in a pond. The more I think about it (because I intend on not noting or typing one word before Tuesday morning), the more ideas I have about the characters. I don't even know how I'm gonna pull it off, but I thought that I have accomplished a few goals that I never thought I would do and this would be one more thing.

I just gotta go buy myself a HUGE bottle of Aleve for my hands.

Did I mention I love the 'nanas? ​

 

[wildsweetone]

Art, are you showing off by any chance? lol one poem a day for a year? heck. maybe with a little discipline i'll be able to get a couple written a week (somehow that even sounds like a massive amount of rewriting-editing to me lol)

i'm not sure where we should post them... maybe open one thread for the poems themselves and keep this thread as a kind of support, pat-on-the-back place...?

good luck with the novel writing everyone...

and good luck to any of us who manage the poems.

 

[Lauren Hynde]

Wild, this is a great idea as always, but personally, I think I will pass.

I've recently read an interview by Bret Easton Ellis who has a (prose) writing method similar to mine:

The writing routine when I'm working on a novel is that I like to stay on a schedule. I like to get up and start work along the same time my friends are going to work, then quit and go out to dinner. If you're going to write that day you really need to be inspired and engaged by the material. You can't just sit down and force yourself. The book is going to be bad, the writing is going to bad. What saves me, I think, is I do a vast outline and am really positive that I want to write this book. I have very few days when I'm puttering about waiting for the mail to come. I want to write because I know I want to write this. I can't imagine people just sitting there going, OK, how's it going to start? Let's see where this goes. I think too many novelists do this and then they get to page 150 and go, What the f-ck am I doing? I'm pretty psyched by the time my outline is done.

The outline is huge. The outline is longer than the book. The outline has notes on the scenes, how the scenes should play out, the tone of the scenes, tons of extra dialogue, tons of extra descriptions. Basically, it's all in shorthand. It's not written in prose, really. It's notes. This happens, this happens, it should look like this, they're going to say this, I want this block of dialogue here, this is going to connect to what happens 20 pages later. It's a very vast, voluminous outline. It's a mess. But I can read it. I can refer to it and know exactly what's going on with it.​

That's how I work as well. So, NaNoWriMo is a great idea if you already do have a full outline completed - which I don't, at this time, so it would be a waste of time for me.

Similarly, for poetry, it would be a great idea if I already had 30 proto-poems scribbled down somewhere waiting for their final shapes.

That's just me, though - the way I work. I don't have hundreds of ideas for great poems floating around; only one at a time, formulating itself in my mind, and once I find it, I'll focus all my attention on it alone. I'm not going to waste time writing something what I don't want to write just to get a poem out.

That being said, we're all different people, and I wish all of you a great month of poetry! I'll be cheering all the way.


PS: By the way, I think the proper name would be NaPoWriMo (National Poetry Writing Month), as opposed to NaNoWriMo (National Novel [not November] Writing Month)

 

[wildsweetone]

for me, i'll be writing those proto types. kind of like a shoot from the hip thing i guess. i know they'll be the roughest of the rough, heck it takes me weeks to edit.

anyways, it'll be fun, and who knows maybe some of us will have a few worthwhile roughs at the end of the month to work on.



btw Lauren, it should be International Poetry Writing Month IPWriMo

it's the 1st Nov for me today, so i'll go start the poetry thread.


all are welcome

 

[Lauren Hynde]

btw Lauren, it should be International Poetry Writing Month IPWriMo

I considered that too, but then thought what the hell.

 

[wildsweetone]

so, you're saying you just wiped me off the face of the earth as not worth the consideration?

 

[Lauren Hynde]

so, you're saying you just wiped me off the face of the earth as not worth the consideration?

LOL - not at all. You have "National" Nude Day already!

 

[wildsweetone]

you mean, that's not every day?

oops

 

[wildsweetone]

Art, interesting first poem. lol i might use that option for tomorrow *giggling*

and the day after,

and the day after...

get my drift?

 

[My Erotic Tale]

Art, interesting first poem. lol i might use that option for tomorrow *giggling*

and the day after,

and the day after...

get my drift?

Okay wild~

I always shoot from the hip.
fly by the seat of my pants
whip it in the wind and all that good stuff <grin>

I Have to agree with lauren on books, I rehash them out till they are over done <grin> but poetry to me is the opposite outlet, the passion or thought flys out in words and they are good...or they are not... like...thoughts <<,grin> of course style formatting structure and all that play if I like what spilled and I want to submit it into my scrapbook / lit list

so with that being said I hope this inspires a great poem to POP out <grin> like liar and "soul pearls~" or Du's in "dew drops song" or RF's in "Lost?" inspiration comes like the wind; when it wants to <grin>

 

[wildsweetone]

...inspiration comes like the wind; when it wants to...

you may well be right there Art. there is something to be said for giving it a helping hand though wait and see what happens.

and i know you're one hell of a prolific poet, so you're probably doing this just to humour me, still, with luck oh, and inspiration maybe you'll hit on something wonderful here too. *smile*

Boo, welcome aboard honey whatever happens at the end, it's going to be a great ride.

i hope some other poets join in along the way too.

enjoy writing!

 

[wildsweetone]

hi MsSwirls *waving* interesting first poem you've added to the challenge. welcome.

 

[Liar]

Wso, your poem today, 13 ways of looking at the garden, is fucking paramount.

Just wanted to say that.

 

[wildsweetone]

oh my gosh i'm blushing so bad right now.

thank you liar. it comes from an idea of an exercise i did last year. it was 13 way of some other such thing that i can't remember... (i do remember i made it to about three or four though lol) i love the outdoors, it is part of what i am and so it seemed natural to share some of the things i see. it needs work, but i had an enjoyable time writing the poem last night and this morning.

welcome to the challenge! i liked your first two poems!

Art, i like your Fountain Fisherman poem too! i can see him sitting there fishing for coins.


happy writing everyone.

 

[wildsweetone]

Mr Fool's joined in too. Welcome. I'm looking forward to reading more of your poetry.

 

[champagne1982]

Hey poets! Congrats on what you've been doing, which is more than I have, I fear, but anyway...

WSO, your 13 ways is lovely but before you take this piece anywhere you should correct the Roman Numeral for 9, it is IX not VIX. I know you know how to write the numerals, I think this one simply slipped past your editor.

Good work everyone.

 

[BooMerengue]

Hey poets! Congrats on what you've been doing, which is more than I have, I fear, but anyway...

WSO, your 13 ways is lovely but before you take this piece anywhere you should correct the Roman Numeral for 9, it is IX not VIX. I know you know how to write the numerals, I think this one simply slipped past your editor.

Good work everyone.

Its not too late for you to join, Champ. Your words would be welcomed. Ain't that right, WSO?

I'm a bit disgruntled at myself for starting it, but discipline is one thing I've always been in short supply of, so I'm gonna try to tough it out. Besides, I think this might be a good place for me to experiment with different things.

 

[Guest]

November 2nd
#2

Silently

I am a speechless one today
encased in morning blue
as Old Man Winter slides
toward me down the mountain
A sinuous line of deep grays
and blues floats on the horizon
yet now and then a maple
or an oak in deepest black
claws toward the sky.
The birds even are silent
the sun has turned away
and with my chocolate
wrapping steam around my fist
I try in vain to welcome
dank and cold November.​

*(I wrote this around 4:45- 5:00am. The sun has since appeared.)

*shivers - and not because I'm cold (which I am)*

 

[wildsweetone]

Hey poets! Congrats on what you've been doing, which is more than I have, I fear, but anyway...

WSO, your 13 ways is lovely but before you take this piece anywhere you should correct the Roman Numeral for 9, it is IX not VIX. I know you know how to write the numerals, I think this one simply slipped past your editor.

Good work everyone.

thanks Carrie for your comments. i don't have an editor, these are all rough straight off the cuff drafts and will need lots of work come December.

thanks for the ix too. i do know the roman numerals, but for some reason messed that one up awfully *yick lol* - the horrible part is i probably would have missed it again during editing. *rolling eyes* so thank you!

as Boo says, you can join at any time if you'd like to and yes, your words are always welcome.

Boo, can i have some of that hot chocolate please? i have a craving. Awesome writing honey!

welcome along Tess and eagleyez!

so much great poetry to read!

keep up the awesome writing everyone and have fun!

 

[BooMerengue]

*sets an old pottery jug on the table and waves my hands in the steam sending a chocolate aroma far and wide- all the way to New Zealand, and Georgia, and Maine, and everywhere! Help thyself, loverlies!

4. about death (working title)

iv
Angelic hands lay by his sides
as a smile of mischief filled his face.
His five-summered eyes
remained closed
and his lips
were cold against mine.

Ohhh, WSO! Beware of this one, my love. It caught at my heart even unfinished. Have you ever read Flippy? And I never intended it to be a real poem... It was just something that appeared in my head one day. You touch on something that everyone no matter race creed politics or religion feels.

Do it. Finish it. I demand it. I dare you. I double dog dare you. You have to take that dare. The penalty for refusal lies in the West Woods deep in the middle of the night...

 

[wildsweetone]

i have just read Flippy by BooMerengue
and have this lump in my throat so big it's difficult to swallow. *hugs* dear lady, from deep in my heart.

i will think about what you've said.