What are your New Year's Resolutions for Poetry?

[WickedEve]

My new year's resolution for poetry is to try (try) not to jot it down and submit it immediately. I want to let each poem simmer for awhile, then take time to revise before submitting. Will I be successful? Maybe for a few weeks.

So what are your resolutions for poetry reading, writing, commenting, submitting, etc?

 

[Reltne]

My new year's resolution for poetry is to try (try) not to jot it down and submit it immediately. I want to let each poem simmer for awhile, then take time to revise before submitting. Will I be successful? Maybe for a few weeks.

So what are your resolutions for poetry reading, writing, commenting, submitting, etc?

Not to believe a Dang thing you say!

 

[WickedEve]

Re: Re: What are your New Year's Resolutions for Poetry?

Not to believe a Dang thing you say!

You can believe 66-69 percent of what I say.

 

[minsue]

So what are your resolutions for poetry reading, writing, commenting, submitting, etc?

To do each.

 

[The_Fool]

My new year's resolution for poetry is to try (try) not to jot it down and submit it immediately. I want to let each poem simmer for awhile, then take time to revise before submitting. Will I be successful? Maybe for a few weeks.

So what are your resolutions for poetry reading, writing, commenting, submitting, etc?

This is a good one for me as well.

Another one is to set aside a specific amount of time at a specific time of the day and WRITE! I have been way too limited in how much I have been writing.

I still want Ange as an Ogre....

 

[annaswirls]

I want to edit some of my poems. Actually finish them. I am trying not to write anything new.

we'll see how long that lasts, but I have edited about 2 a day since the New Year.... well damn, I guess I should be done by Spring



I WANT TO LEARN HOW TO WRITE

to actually take a class in creative writing, and just general stuff like punctuation and gerunds and dangling participles and you know, that Englishy stuff.

I would like to build my vocabulary.
stretch beyond like
and stuff
and wow that is cool

 

[twelveoone]

I want to edit some of my poems. Actually finish them. I am trying not to write anything new.

we'll see how long that lasts, but I have edited about 2 a day since the New Year.... well damn, I guess I should be done by Spring



I WANT TO LEARN HOW TO WRITE

to actually take a class in creative writing, and just general stuff like punctuation and gerunds and dangling participles and you know, that Englishy stuff.

I would like to build my vocabulary.
stretch beyond like
and stuff
and wow that is cool

Wow, I like your stuff

 

[Lauren Hynde]

Write more and better, comment more and better, contribute more and better to the community here.

 

[BooMerengue]

I want to edit some of my poems. Actually finish them. I am trying not to write anything new.

we'll see how long that lasts, but I have edited about 2 a day since the New Year.... well damn, I guess I should be done by Spring



I WANT TO LEARN HOW TO WRITE

to actually take a class in creative writing, and just general stuff like punctuation and gerunds and dangling participles and you know, that Englishy stuff.

I would like to build my vocabulary.
stretch beyond like
and stuff
and wow that is cool

I want to get back to writing; I've let life pull me away from it. And I, too, would love to take a class on Writing. But that's impossible for me. I would dearly love it if, along side lots more Challenges, some of the better poets here would offer a class. Why not? Ange? You know enough to teach us all something. Lauren? jd? Fool? Tath? C'mon, you guys... share!

I also want to work harder on Forms. I know- I hear the groans. lol But I think it's important to know the forms well in order to step outside them.

Happy New Year, y'all!

 

[twelveoone]

To show WickedEve the respect she deserves
To prevent annaswirls from writing too linear
To write things that go in multiple directions
To a least finish a rough draft of the Promised Land

to write something pretty, with birds and flowers, clouds, colours

matsukaze mon amour

 

[sandspike]

I will......

become an even more mindless beach poet. I will only write
about beers, the beach, and good tunes fueling beach and
bar emotions. That should get me down to about 2 or 3
poems a month. Which means I'll have to pick up production.
Which means I won't keep this resolution.

 

[Du Lac]

resolutions not.. lessons yes

Hi all.. I gave up on the resolution thing along time ago..
now I ask for lessons to expand who I am...
last year
trust
balance
patience

this years is.....
serenity
trust
(sometimes we have to do it all over again)
restoring focus in my life
direct connection with other humans
(having trusting relationships) lol...
so that is that...
maybe the list will grow who knows
blessings
du lac

 

[Angeline]

keep writing it.

keep submitting it.

and on another note: write the damn lester young play! (i need at least one resolution to break)

 

[The_Fool]

keep writing it.

keep submitting it.

and on another note: write the damn lester young play! (i need at least one resolution to break)

Revolving quote? Didn't I just read a Charlie Mingus quote?

 

[Angeline]

Revolving quote? Didn't I just read a Charlie Mingus quote?

uh yeah.

I have a list of jazz quotes. I'm working my way through em.

 

[Guest]

My new year's resolution for poetry is to try (try) not to jot it down and submit it immediately. I want to let each poem simmer for awhile, then take time to revise before submitting. Will I be successful? Maybe for a few weeks.

That goes for me too. I'm like a little kid with my poems; wanting my work put on the refridgerator as soon as I write one instead of waiting for edit that always comes a week or so later that I always do... Laurel must love me by now.

 

[twelveoone]

My new year's resolution for poetry is to try (try) not to jot it down and submit it immediately. I want to let each poem simmer for awhile, then take time to revise before submitting. Will I be successful? Maybe for a few weeks.

So what are your resolutions for poetry reading, writing, commenting, submitting, etc?

(in Homer Simpson voice)
simm-mer
the thoughts of your poems simmering...


...I must simmer down

 

[WickedEve]

Re: Re: What are your New Year's Resolutions for Poetry?

(in Homer Simpson voice)
simm-mer
the thoughts of your poems simmering...


...I must simmer down

I like Homer. I was always a little envious of Marge for picking a better husband--and the tall hair. I worry that my hair isn't big enough.

 

[Remec]

So what are your resolutions for poetry reading, writing, commenting, submitting, etc?

To do all of the above, naturally...<g>

I resolve to try and begin reading more poetry again...both here and elsewhere...and to let what I read seep deep into my soul and heart and give me something to bring out my own words and thoughts and phrases and descriptive passages...to explore more forms and, at least, try my hand at most of them...

 

[postobitum]

I resolve to start writing again, period. I have no idea why but I am in a hellaslump. I just put 'hella' in front of a legitimate word. Dammit.

When I finally do start writing again I guess I too should put more thought and at least a little bit of revision into it. Also must make more of an effort to leave insightful remarks and helpful critiques on other's work, less of this sappy shallow 'I love this one!' crap.

I hate literary constipation!