Today the prompt was not able to inspire me. (Blank of the blank where you replace the blanks) and that’s okay. Sometimes the volume title requires a little bit of inspiration to make it feel like it fits. There’s always at least one poem that I have titled the same. And sometimes there are others that fit in the same general idea as the title. I wrote the title poem yesterday and I chose to do this one today. As long as I am writing a poem a day I believe it still counts 😊.
Today the prompt was not able to inspire me. (Blank of the blank where you replace the blanks) and that’s okay. Sometimes the volume title requires a little bit of inspiration to make it feel like it fits. There’s always at least one poem that I have titled the same. And sometimes there are others that fit in the same general idea as the title. I wrote the title poem yesterday and I chose to do this one today. As long as I am writing a poem a day I believe it still counts 😊.
Today the prompt could have worked…but I didn’t feel it. Today was the obligatory form poem/anti form poem prompt. He always puts it in. And I have a volume in development for that…but this was the first poem in Ethereal Dreams… I felt like acknowledging that. Each volume is a new mindset. I have to figure out what this chapter of my life is about. Thoughtcicles was about shock and grief for the changes of self and relationship. A lot of frozen thought and self care. I don’t know what ethereal Dreams is yet.
Also we’re a week into November. This is the month for writing… and I think that a lot of people – myself included – see Nanowrimo as a pass or fail thing way too often. It should be about the setting of a routine, not about the word count. If you can hit that word count daily then awesome, congratulations! But if you can’t don’t get discouraged. Set a time for daily writing and meet that every day. Not all writing is novels. Children’s books are a thing. Those require far less word count. Poetry is still writing. Do a poem a day.(that is what I decided to do) Do not measure your own success by the way that other people write. You are going to have a different way of speaking. Writing is another way of using your voice. Don’t let anyone take your voice from you.
I am going to try to post my poem every day from the PAD Challenge. I am terrible at doing that…lol. I also do not know if I am going to only do one of them or not. I found a couple of options. I usually do the writer’s digest version(Linked above.) But sometimes the prompt does not hit properly. Fae Corps is also posting a daily prompt in November, just as we do in April and November every year.
Today’s Prompt from Writer’s Digest was either Beginning or end.
What would you do with that prompt? What would you do with the Fae Corps Prompt? If you aren’t doing poetry are you doing NANOWRIMO? Tell me about your project. I am really interested in what others are doing this year.
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