Tomorrow is the last day of both NaBloPoMo and the Poetic Asides November Poem-A-Day Chapbook Challenge. Thank fucking goodness. I’m not as concerned with the poetry challenge because they don’t all have to be written by tomorrow. Participants have the entire month of December to revise the poems and then submit it for the chapbook contest (which I’m not doing; I’m planning to take more than a month for revisions). So I have plenty of time to write them and because they offer daily prompts, at least I have ideas.
As for NaBloPoMo, I do have ideas, but I just don’t have the energy to write something that’s fairly well thought-out in just a few minutes and then hit the “Publish” button. If I do this again next year, which I probably will, we will not be doing any traveling during the month of November. On the other hand, if we do have travel plans, I won’t be doing NaBloPoMo. It’s just been way too much for me.
It hasn’t helped that I haven’t had enough sleep/haven’t been sleeping well for the past few weeks. I’m absolutely exhausted today. Again. Each day I’m just that much bitchier and not so gentle with my state of mind. I’m not giving myself any mental breaks, like I remind my friends who do or do not have bipolar to do when they’re going through a rough patch. Why? Because I have these crazy, unrealistically high standards for myself. So, I’m ending this post now in order to try practicing what I preach.
::hugs::
I’ve been struggling to find the energy to write things that are well-thought-out this month for NaBloPoMo too. Last night’s post is a study in that – I actually only posted one sentence before midnight. Then I went back and edited it later to add in the meatier stuff. This is not the first time I’ve done that this month either…
Which I suppose is my way of saying that we can make allowances for ourselves in these kinds of challenges. No one will come and lock us up in NaBloPoMo prison for interpreting the challenge in our own way, you know?
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You’re right. I mean, before Twitter, I’m pretty sure I wrote a lot of one-sentence posts!
NaBloPoMo prison, indeed.
I am with you. This has been hard. And some of my posts have been less than inspired. Why the hell do they do this in november? Seems like February would be better – I mean no one travels or has to buy gifts for Presidents Day right? I will be glad when this is over. But I am glad I found your little part of the blogosphere!
Welcome to the bloggohood! I believe the NaBloPoMo site does it every month, and other than November, each month has a theme on what you’re supposed to write about. That would get old to me, unless the theme was mental illness or SW or Mafia Wars.
Anyway, I’m pretty sure they chose November because that’s the month that NaNoWriMo takes place, which is an even more ridiculous event to hold in November. But, kudos to those able to complete NaNoWriMo.
ps I will keep coming by after this little challenge!
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