JuPoWriMo: Am I really that crazy? And… Are You?
Some of the people with whom I participated in NaPoWriMo are diving into JuPoWriMo: June Poetry Writing Month. Instead of a poem a day, the challenge is to write ten poems in June, one every three days. The idea, I think, is to continue the forward momentum from NaPo at a pace that won’t drive everyone completely insane. Again.
Edit: The rest of this entry is altered from the original, because on reflection insanity is more fun in groups.
I think I’m going to try it, although I’m going to use this blog rather than the forum I usually post at—for some reason, I want to JuPo in semi-privacy.
However, support is nice when you’re doing something crazy. Anyone else want to jump in? I can give you a temporary account here, so you could login and post here. The rules (as much as there are rules) for this are:
- Ten poems in June, ideally one every three days.
- If you want to write around a theme, go for it. If not, whatever comes to you.
- This isn’t a workshop—from my NaPo experience, I can tell you that criticism is zero help in the middle of an exercise like this. All comments on posted works stay encouraging (I add this because of my conduct in workshop; we all know what I’m like. It won’t happen here—this is a fun challenge to get the creative juices juicing.)
And that’s it. Really. What say you? MMM? JSK? Another S? PPP, want to engage in some JuPoWriMo maddness?
For what it’s worth, I’m going to center my poems around the idea of a twelve-step program (ten poems… twelve steps… I’ll deal with the problem later). I’ve considered using “Cat Bloggers Anonymous” as the overarching theme, but I’ll probably go with something like “Twelve Steps to Forgiving the Sins of the Father.” Although that’s a bit… preachy?... for me.
Are you in? It’ll be fun!
Another S says 1 June 2006
I’m in!
This is great. I usually do “a poem a day in May” but I crapped out on it this month. I think I got 1 1/2 done.
Sure, I’ll take a temporary account here.
Have I told you I did NaNoWriMo—the novel one—back in November? I ended up with about 12,000 words, less than a quarter of the goal. From that I ended up with one 500-word short short (or prose poem, if you like). But hey, it’s the first prose fiction I’ve written since I was required to write it in an undergrad workshop.
On another note: Julianna Baggott who did the Quick Muse last night is my professor. It was weird to watch someone I actually know compose. I couldn’t make it through the whole play-back of either Thylias Moss or Paul Muldoon without getting bored, but I watched Julianna and Pinsky like a hawk. (It’s fun to have them running on two separate browser windows at the same time.)