Day 311: Anyone doing NaPoWriMo this year?

[audreyhowitt]

Raising my hand as well--where do we sign up???

 

[CatrionaGrace]

Cat's poem blows
This she knows.
So she stows it.

(Catriona Grace, I Shall Be Silent #9)

 

[Homer Potvin]

Raising my hand as well--where do we sign up???

No need. I'll create the forum tomorrow and we can discuss how it's going to go. I think everyone just creates their own thread and post poems each day or every other day or whatever. It's not a competition or anything. If you only write 5, well, that's 5 more than you had before, right?

 

[Socks Fox]

I've done NaPoem multiple times. Last year was actually the first time I didn't participate in almost a decade. We were also working through some major changes at home. We had lost Rue Dog in October 2024 and I randomly decided to foster a rescue Aussie I named Basse in April 2025.

Basse foster failed and has settled into life with us so I have a bit more time now.

Basse and Marlowe are here to help...

 

[Homer Potvin]

I think the only wrinkle here would be that each member's thread be wired to not accept responses. Anybody who want critique can put the poem in the Workshop once April has concluded. If we don't forbid responses, the threads are likely to inadvertently become cluttered with critique. Makes sense, right?

 

[audreyhowitt]

No need. I'll create the forum tomorrow and we can discuss how it's going to go. I think everyone just creates their own thread and post poems each day or every other day or whatever. It's not a competition or anything. If you only write 5, well, that's 5 more than you had before, right?

I am looking forward to this!

 

[Homer Potvin]

I haven't built the area yet but will do it in time

 

[Masonic Mallam]

I tagged here with the @name function so she'd see it. Not sure if she's a poet or not, but there doesn't seem to be much interest so far. I'd think the frequent flyers like @Riddley Walker @Masonic Mallam @moharram @athousandsorrows @Heartlet Happer might be more interested. I tagged them as well. No biggie either way.

I'm already planning to do it on the other site. Will it be okay if I post the same poems on both sites?

 

[Tallyfire]

Wonder if the forum member @Tallyfire would like this challenge, she suggested the previous one, I've never heard of it before.

Believe it or not, I wrote and edited my first poem in years yesterday. Total coincidence. I'd never heard of NaPoWriMo before this thread.

Count me in! I need something fun to do.

I think everyone just creates their own thread and post poems each day or every other day or whatever. It's not a competition or anything.

Sounds good to me. A general (separate) discussion thread to go, "wow!" or whatever to people's poems or discuss the prompt of the day would be nice too.

I tagged here with the @name function so she'd see it.

The tag didn't work in retrospect, btw. I never got a ping. Just stumbled onto this thread and was surprised to see myself mentioned.

 

[Pik]

Believe it or not, I wrote and edited my first poem in years yesterday. Total coincidence. I'd never heard of NaPoWriMo before this thread.

Count me in! I need something fun to do.

The poems I posted around here were mostly in my native language and I translated them afterwards, for NaPoWriMo I'd be writing directly in English. I'll probably join the challenge too but don't know how often I'll post the poems, and they'll be something like haiku. Good to see you're writing here again!

 

[Homer Potvin]

The forum has been created here.

And a discussion thread has been created here for all comments and questions. I'm closing this announcement thread to keep everything streamlined. Feel free to click over and let me know if I missed anything.

 

[Homer Potvin]

I'm already planning to do it on the other site. Will it be okay if I post the same poems on both sites?

And, yes, that is totally fine. Sorry, meant to answer this earlier.