NaPoWriMo

In an act of silliness, I've signed up for NaPoWriMo, national poetry writing month. It's being hosted over at Star Nosed Mole, by its challenging inventor.

The NaPoWriMo is inspired by NaNoWriMo, national novel writing month, in which participants try to write a novel in a month, which is about 1,500 keeper words a day. Eek. I've tried that, and got pretty much nowhere. And this, to my mind, is even more challenging. If I write two or three good poems a month, I'm happy. This is ten times that.

But I do it because I hope the pressure will push something up. Something wants to come up -- I can feel it. No idea what that something is. But perhaps letting go of trying to figure it out, letting go of my internal quality control,
I might tempt it out. The way you tempt a cat by ignoring it.

The key, I think, will be to let go of the "good poems" part. Be warned: quality here may be about to take a star-nosed dive. I start tomorrow.