Another creative month?
Mar. 9th, 2022 12:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
onepageatatimeI just recently learned about NaPoWriMo, held in April. Which now has me wondering whether or not to attempt it.
NaPoWriMo is National (or Global) Poetry Writing Month. With the goal of writing a poem each day from April 1 through April 30.
Why try it? I enjoy being creative and I am not great at carving out the time or settling on a form of creativity at any given time. Poems are shorter than novels, and after multiple attempts and only one manuscript reaching 50,000 words (but not, by any means, a completed draft)… I proved to myself that I could stick with writing a novel for that long and I learned that doing it in a single month is not the best way (for me or my writing) to attempt to start a novel.
Why not? I don't know if I have a good answer to the question "What is a poem?" Does the world need more bad poetry to be written? Would I want to read any poem I'd written, let alone thirty of them?
I think I've mostly decided to do it. I'm still not sure it's a good idea. But it's better than other ideas I've survived. And maybe I'll surprise myself
NaPoWriMo is National (or Global) Poetry Writing Month. With the goal of writing a poem each day from April 1 through April 30.
Why try it? I enjoy being creative and I am not great at carving out the time or settling on a form of creativity at any given time. Poems are shorter than novels, and after multiple attempts and only one manuscript reaching 50,000 words (but not, by any means, a completed draft)… I proved to myself that I could stick with writing a novel for that long and I learned that doing it in a single month is not the best way (for me or my writing) to attempt to start a novel.
Why not? I don't know if I have a good answer to the question "What is a poem?" Does the world need more bad poetry to be written? Would I want to read any poem I'd written, let alone thirty of them?
I think I've mostly decided to do it. I'm still not sure it's a good idea. But it's better than other ideas I've survived. And maybe I'll surprise myself
