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NaPowriMo Day 22# 22/30 ‘A Bride Before I Die’– A Special Bucket List
Inspired by an interview. The Bucket List The list is always written Fuelled by dreams, Expectation that you can tick hopes off one by one. Sometimes life takes the lead and ticks you off the list...
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NaPoWriMo Day 23# 23/30 Extracts
Gathered together friends in a room discussing conspiracy theories, Wisdom imparted – opinions shared. ‘It’s the same thing,’ There was a big story about this, that and the other, Facts shared....
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NaPoWriMo Day 24# 24/30 Extracts
A day filled with lessons and learning. Conscious of feeling your brain receptors Grow active as your mind is stretched far beyond The comfortable shore It once sat on.
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NaPoWriMo Day 25# 25/30 Extracts Life
Life Sometimes the end of a long, hard day Can feel like catching Your nails down a chalkboard, Scraping your teeth with a fork, Listening to the piercing screams of a newborn on a Long haul flight....
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NaPoWriMo Day 26# 26/30 The Shadow
I really like the idea of today’s prompt – so for the 3rd time since the month began I will attempt to follow the prompt. I remember doing something similar to this at college… Once upon a time – A...
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NaPoWriMo Day 27 # 27/30 Golden Tokens
Love the prompt from NaPoWriMo today – I have really enjoyed writing a poem a day. Today, I challenge you to use the wondrous powers of the Internet to help you write, and I have a particular method in...
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NaPoWriMo Day 28# 28/30 – Colour My World
Another NaPowriMo prompt used today. Today, I’d like you to pick a color. How many synonyms are there for your color (e.g., green, chartreuse, olive, veridian)? Look around the room, take a walk —...
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NaPoWriMo Day 29# 29/30 Extracts
Days wind like tangled wool Impossible to straighten The end is nowhere in sight, Even now, as the night closes And the darkness becomes another day, There is still more to do.
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NaPoWriMo … the last day 30/30 – A Haiku to mark the end of a month writing...
Like a full moon the month completes its cycle and poets drop their pen.
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Monthly Review – April 2013
That was April, ‘pufft’ over in a flash, we are now officially a ¼ of the way through 2013- oh my! This month has been massively productive for me as a writer, training in my craft. As far as making...
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NaNoWriMo & NaPoWriMo – It’s that time of year again!
Last year I took part in the Spring and Summer camps for NaNoWriMo - National Novel Writing Month – the main event takes place in November. I successfully completed all 3 challenges and have over...
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End of Month Writing Deadlines & A Surprise!
I am hoping this evening that I will be able to write a poem for submission, I missed the opportunity to enter Furies Anthology Competition last night, as I just couldn’t manage to write a poem that I...
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NaPoWriMo – A Post of Terms
I am loving the commitment to NaPoWriMo already. I have decided to post everyday about the process of writing the poem and the prompt. Last year, it was halfway through before I knew there were...
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NaPoWriMo – The First Few Days: Day 1
I am blogging about the process of writing the poems, rather than publishing my full daily poem on here. I will add extracts when I can, unlike Camp NaNoWriMo, I edit and polish my poems as I create,...
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NaPoWriMo Day 2
Day 2 You could write a poem inspired by Norse mythology, or perhaps by one of these creatures from Japanese legend. Every time and place and culture has its myths and legends, so there’s plenty to...
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NaPoWriMo – Day 4
Today’s optional prompt is to write a lune. A lune is a sort of English-language variation on the haiku, meant to better render the tone of the Japanese haiku than the standard 5-7-5 format we all...
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NaPoWriMo – Day 5
The prompt for Day 5 confused me for a while and I found the poem the hardest I have had to write, mainly because I was trying to write my poem and make the other poem fit the end words, as opposed to...
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NaPoWriMo – Day 6
Day Six On April 6, 2014 Welcome back for Day Six of NaPoWriMo. Yesterday’s prompt was a bit of a doozy, so I’ve something much more simple lined up for today. We got rather complicated with...
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From a Week Off to a Week On (It)!
Last week I took a week off from performance events, open mics and any socialising generally. I worked for 4 days and wrote in the evenings (mainly , desperately need to catch up with NaNoWriMo)! I...
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LOST!
What a nightmare – had a rehearsal this morning before work for Mouth & Music tomorrow night, tried to find a new Found Poem to show (fortunately our set is at 9/10 minutes and we don’t need...
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