NaBloPoMo 2009

November 1st, 2009 | Blogs/Blogging, Goals, On Writing

NaBloPoMoI must really be crazy. Not only am I going to participate in Poetic Asides’ 2009 November PAD Challenge, I, on impulse (surprise, surprise) decided to participate in National Blog Posting Month (NaBloPoMo) this year for the first time. They even provide you with a nifty little widget you can put in your sidebar (hint: scroll down ;-) ).

Like the Poem-A-Day Challenge last April in which I participated, Poetic Asides will post a prompt for each day in November, and you’re required to write a poem that corresponds to it. Unlike April’s PAD, I will not be submitting my poems to the Chapbook Contest. I’m merely utilizing this event as a way to generate poems. Hey, it worked in April. The nice thing was that you didn’t have to keep up with each day’s prompt — you could write all 30 poems on April 30th, as long as you submitted them by the deadline. I imagine it will be the same this month.

NaBloPoMo doesn’t work that way. You have to write a blog post each day of November. They don’t provide blogosphere-wide prompts, although some members will suggest prompts that are just that — suggestions. I don’t honestly know if I’ll be able to complete this because my priority will be the poetry writing.

Many of the poems from my thesis are good, but I’m not satisfied with it as a manuscript. My long-term goal is to write enough poems that I can put together into a decent manuscript, but for now, I need to write poems.

So, it begins.

6 Responses to “NaBloPoMo 2009”

  1. crazybeanrider says:
    November 2, 2009 at 8:43 am

    I have not heard of either of those challenges. perhaps in the future I’ll give them a try. A great way to improve upon writing skills.

    I wish you the best of luck on the poem a day. That is definetly a hard challenge.
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    • Barb says:
      November 2, 2009 at 12:20 pm

      I’d heard of the blogging one but just never did it — never felt up to it, I guess. And I hadn’t heard of the poetry chapbook contest until I started doing the April challenge. At least the poetry thing is less pressure: no need to write each day, every day! Check it out. :-)

  2. Stinkypaw says:
    November 2, 2009 at 12:33 pm

    I did NaBloPoMo the past two years, and enjoyed it, even if at times I felt as if I was running out of creative juices, but it’s a good feeling when it’s all done. Have fun!

    Let creativity invade you! ;-)

  3. Megan says:
    November 2, 2009 at 7:19 pm

    I’m so glad you’re on the bandwagon! :)
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