April has been a busy old month with the London Marathon, Christenings and Caius was away with work for a lot of it. Through it all I have kept up with writing a poem a day (more or less, I wrote a couple late) and one or two of them are even okay! I do…… Continue reading #NaPoWriMo – The Final Day
I have a confession to make… I didn’t write any poems this weekend. I would claim that I didn’t totally forget, but that would be a total lie because I did. But I totally forgot having given myself prior permission and promising myself that I would catch up (which I have). You see it was…… Continue reading #NaPoWriMo meets the London Marathon (An Excuse.)
Half-way through April means it’s half-way through National Poetry Month and thus NaPoWriMo. I have kept up, more or less. Well, I say more or less – I have written something every single day but some have been somewhat half-hearted efforts. Take my poem from 13th April for example: Lament Poems are like chocolate bars…… Continue reading #NaPoWriMo ~ The Half-way Mark
It is the 9th of April and I can sit here and say that I have so far written 9 poems. I can also sit here and quite honestly say that a couple of them are utter rubbish. But you know what? That’s okay. They are all first drafts and they are all unplanned and…… Continue reading #NaPoWriMo ~ An Update
When I was at University I took a module called Sudden Prose and it was both one of my favourite and most hated modules. It involved learning about the arts of Flash Fiction and of Prose Poetry. One of these I loved and the other I hated. Flash Fiction, as anyone who reads this blog…… Continue reading Facing the Beast ~ A #NaPoWriMo Post
It only seems five minutes since I was doing NaNoWriMo and yet here we are with April fast approaching and a new challenge before us. I say us, I mean me. For some people April means CampNaNoWriMo, where you set your own word count and spend the month trying to hit it – like NaNoWriMo…… Continue reading NaPoWriMo
