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Thread: NaPoWriMo 2006 & you

  1. 04-26-2006, 08:12 PM #91
    Eloise S
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    Quote Originally Posted by Donner
    but if NaPo has taught me anything it's that we don't have to wait for inspiration to strike and when you have to you can come up with something that may, eventually, become the basis for a good poem. If nothing else, writing everyday gives you a folderful of ideas to explore.
    What she said. But no way could I keep up writing everyday--I have A Levels to revise for, and eventually take. It's not even the actual writing, but the hours I can spend tinkering and reading old bits and pieces are a great distraction from my actual work.
    Damn you multiple Word windows!

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  2. 04-26-2006, 10:42 PM #92
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    Quote Originally Posted by eremetic
    It's not even the actual writing, but the hours I can spend tinkering and reading old bits and pieces
    That is the actual writing.

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  3. 04-26-2006, 10:53 PM #93
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    Did this happen last year? People started getting angsty about the approaching end? It just proves we're all masochists.
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  4. 04-26-2006, 10:56 PM #94
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    Quote Originally Posted by Harry R
    That is the actual writing.

    Harry
    mainly serious.
    Fair enough, I count a draft as a major overhaul, flip-flopping between whether to use the imperfect or perfect tense is tinkering. I can spend hours debating commas versus semi-colons, it's not writing in any active sense, more time-filling. Often I don't even change anything, it's like how you feel about reading the paper: a nice way to spend 45 minutes being gently interested and annoyed.

    This is all time that could be spent learning about the EU Competition Policy or Nationalism in the main UK parties, which aren't quite as enthralling.
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  5. 04-26-2006, 10:59 PM #95
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    Quote Originally Posted by ADK
    Did this happen last year? People started getting angsty about the approaching end? It just proves we're all masochists.
    Ah, yup. It's like anticipating your admission to the Betty Ford Clinic.
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  6. 04-28-2006, 12:14 PM #96
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    Quote Originally Posted by anita.a
    Hey Mods! Any chance of extending this NaPo exercise for another month? I'm really enjoying it a lot, both writing and reading.Thanks and cheers to NaPoWriMo.
    I should think no-one will stop you from continuing to post.

    I look forward to reading your daily poems into August, at least!

    Cheers!

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  7. 04-28-2006, 12:21 PM #97
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    Quote Originally Posted by Harry R
    That is the actual writing.

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    mainly serious.

    What Harry said.
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  8. 04-28-2006, 01:29 PM #98
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    Quote Originally Posted by anita.a
    Hey Mods! Any chance of extending this NaPo exercise for another month? I'm really enjoying it a lot, both writing and reading.Thanks and cheers to NaPoWriMo.
    This is a thought I might take up. I haven't got my thirty poems, dreck included, though I definitely exceeded my goal of writing more than I wrote last year. So maybe I'll continue until I hit the magic number.

    I'm about ten poems behind.
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  9. 04-28-2006, 04:26 PM #99
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    Scavella, Anita et al

    OK, I started late, so I will do the same: I am 11 poems behind.

    Even if we only get each other to read the poems, or no one, we will still have the benefit of that Kill or Cure write-pressure all the rest of them enjoyed/endured ...

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  10. 04-28-2006, 05:07 PM #100
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sorella
    OK, I started late, so I will do the same: I am 11 poems behind.

    Even if we only get each other to read the poems, or no one, we will still have the benefit of that Kill or Cure write-pressure all the rest of them enjoyed/endured ...

    Sorella
    Absolutely. I will be reading and commenting well into May on all the stuff I couldn't get to.
    I really hope you, Sorella, and the other newbies that underwent initiation by immersion will stick around.
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  11. 04-28-2006, 05:18 PM #101
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    I too intend to read and comment well after April and will be glad to have company. So, cheers Scavella and Sorella and others who wish to finish their obligations, I'll be reading.

    Autumn

    Quote Originally Posted by Scavella
    This is a thought I might take up. I haven't got my thirty poems, dreck included, though I definitely exceeded my goal of writing more than I wrote last year. So maybe I'll continue until I hit the magic number.
    I'm about ten poems behind.
    Quote Originally Posted by Sorella
    OK, I started late, so I will do the same: I am 11 poems behind.
    Even if we only get each other to read the poems, or no one, we will still have the benefit of that Kill or Cure write-pressure all the rest of them enjoyed/endured ...
    Sorella
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    Absolutely. I will be reading and commenting well into May on all the stuff I couldn't get to.
    I really hope you, Sorella, and the other newbies that underwent initiation by immersion will stick around.
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  12. 04-28-2006, 08:27 PM #102
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    I think I'll go for writing the 30 poems in however long it takes (not, hopefully, more than a month...). I'm 6 poems behind and I'd like to improve the average standard of poems I've posted, so why not? Apart from diluting the purity of the NPWM ideal.
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  13. 04-28-2006, 08:53 PM #103
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    I would like to thank, in advance, anyone who does make up their missing poems past April 30. Last year, I had a massive post-NaPo poetry funk that I couldn't shake myself out of. This year, that same funk is striking even earlier. Endings depress me, I guess. It's like the post-Christmas blues.

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  14. 04-29-2006, 08:17 PM #104
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    Sipping a margarita from a cool veranda and watching from a thousand miles above the fray, I can say with definitive authority that it is good to be on the other side of NaPo.

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  15. 04-29-2006, 08:25 PM #105
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    Oh Glaucon!

    The rest of us drink for inspiration! Lucky lucky you...well done and cheers! 4 down and 3 to go on my Sestina with KAngaroo.

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