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Unread 03-04-2023, 02:01 PM
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Hi Christine,

The smiley was intended to indicate that I wasn't really being serious about my snobbery. Different people have different amounts of time available, after all. I have lots of time on my hands. Whatever works for you and gets you writing more is a good thing. Apologies if I seemed to be saying otherwise.

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No, no; it's alright. I should know better than to respond to posts while I'm feeling annoyed, anyway. I accept your smiley'd intention and retract my griping.

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I'm coming back with an apology, too, thoroughly ashamed of my post no.7. I can't believe I really wrote that down. It's true, but it's an embarrassing foible and I should have kept it to myself. However, good luck to all who undertake the challenge.

And here's an option for those who work more slowly - a sack race, as it were, for the fallen hurdlers. https://fiftytwopoetry.wordpress.com/
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Hi all,

Christine, I enjoy NaPo. I think it works for me because it encourages play, and it's so low stakes that I don't feel uncomfortable sharing less-than-polished writing/images.

I find I get about six good ideas from the month - and the pressure to keep up the pace towards the end can drive me in unusual directions, which I appreciate. My first ever published poem was a NaPo poem from 2015, written somewhere in the middle of April in a hurry on a train.

Also, participation in various frenzied Aprils got me in the habit of creating/writing something every day - however tiny, however fragmented, however silly. I just do that now, creating as a daily practice, but I needed the push of writing in company to get me started.

It's really interesting to find out people's different reactions to the idea, too. I can 'get' how it seems unappealing as well as appealing.

(my sneaky annoyance in NaPo is when you get someone who posts say seven excellent poems - really polished poems - and you just know that these are unlikely to be first drafts, and they're just sharing them for kudos and see the month as a competition to be won)

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Unread 03-07-2023, 07:52 PM
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I wish I had the time for it, but I've been like a broken record with that so I won't drone on.

I've actually been taking a stab at the opposite approach lately - I'm so short on inspiration these days that I'm putting all of my attention into one poem, and plan to just keep working on it and see where it goes / when I decide to stop.

I'm not trying to make it into a masterpiece, it's just light entertainment here and there.
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