November 6, 2011
Better Late Than Never: The Start of Poetry Week.
Well, hey, looks like I totally fell asleep before I posted this. Well, blog a day! It’s still today! No worries, right? Right? *sighs* Anyway…
Well, it’s the month of NaNoWriMo, and while I’m not participating this year, it feels like I should still use this occasion to kick my creative writing up a notch, since I always seem to be too busy to do it. Therefore, I’m going to write some poems this week, and you can read them! Won’t that be fun? To various degrees of fun?
I’m going to lay out some ground rules though. One, these are going to be super rough drafts. I’m just going to sit here and bang something out and then post. They will likely end up being highly edited and modified before they’re done! (And if I write something that I feel doesn’t need editing, well, uh, you probably won’t see it.) Did you hear that potential publishers? Very. Rough. Drafts. Not A Published Poem. Making the claim now. For whatever that’s worth. (Probably very little.)
Two, these are all going to be personal poems. I’ve been writing about characters for a long time now in my poetry. I love doing that, and it really gets me going. But there’s some charm to being able to write about life as I see it, instead of something imaginary. I’m going to use this week to stretch my legs in that direction. At least for now.
In any case, I hope you enjoy. Or if not, you can just skip to next week. Whatever. Poems incoming!