Category: Writing
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NaPoWriMo Draft 8.
The biggest challenge of NaPoWriMo, besides the whole “write 30 poems in 30 days” bit, is that by its very nature this means you don’t get to enjoy the afterglow of having written a poem you like, or get to work making it better. The blankest of blank pages awaits you every single day. Revision…
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NaPoWriMo Draft 7.
A special thank you to Karin @Babblecat Café for her Nines Exercise. I cheated shamelessly, but it still helped me get going today. It was especially exciting to use a prompt from such an amazing poet, gave an extra frisson to the drafting process. {poof!}
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NaPoWriMo Draft 5.
A more discursive style for today’s poem, prompted perhaps by the lazy nature of a Sunday morning — though my morning started altogether too early. Or my evening never really ended. They both bleed together these days. FYI: drafts will only remain up until the next one is posted, approx. 24 hrs. {poof!}
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NaPoWriMo Draft 4.
No nonet today, though you do really internalize it when you’ve been working in a form: as I began my draft, the lines were falling into a nonet until I consciously changed them. {poof!}
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NaPoWriMo Draft 3.
My third nonet for draft 3 — and as such you can see what sort of day I’ve had! Next week Vincent will begin going to a preschool right around the corner two mornings a week — I have High Hopes that this will avail me the time and mental space necessary to complete a…
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NaPoWriMo Draft 2.
Another nonet today — I am so far behind schedule I wasn’t sure I’d manage a poem today, and it’s still morning! Anne Marie Macari and Carey Salerno are reading tonight, so hopefully I’ll return home afterwards with some fresh ideas for tomorrow. {poof!}
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NaPoWriMo Draft 1.
I can’t remember which poet said this, but when asked how becoming a mother has changed her writing, she replied that her poems were shorter. That’s the reality of writing during naps, or with a baby on your lap while the older boy refuses to eat his breakfast. So, as I did last year during…
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Beginnings.
As I mentally gird up for NaPoWriMo, I’ve been resisting poem prompts: gathering them, the idea of using them. But if I’m being realistic, I’m going to run out of ideas awfully fast in the course of writing a poem a day — I’ll need some help. I don’t know why I’m reluctant to use…
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Countdown to NaPoWriMo.
March is now more than halfway through — NaPoWriMo will be here in a mere 13 days! I’m a little light-headed just thinking about it. Last year, with one child & a full-time job, I managed 12 days / 12 poems before I petered out. Of those 12 poems, 11 were keepers (and 10 will…
Marie Gauthier 