Monday 25 March 2013

NaPoWriMo

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Well, this is a new one on me. But I do love a challenge.

I was a Municipal Liaison for NaNoWriMo back in the day and whilst this is a similar style of challenge (as you can see from the title, it's modelled after National Novel Writing Month) it's different enough to pose, well, a challenge. You see, I'm not a poet.

I am, however, an advocate of challenge writing. Challenges get us to break our usual routine, or perhaps even form a routine for the first time. They make us step out of our comfort zone and give us a reason to do so. They quite often come with a built in community, which can open doors and usher in friendships through the bond of crazy challenge hardships. (Trust me, crazy is the right word when you're in the thick of it - you all go a little nuts doing these things.) And it makes you show up and write each day.

NaPoWriMo is a growing challenge community, with over a thousand participants last year, a number they're hoping to beat in 2013. April is the month of the challenge and your mission, should you accept it, is to write a poem a day for 30 days, starting on the 1st.

You can join in by submitting your website or blog address where you will be posting your poems, so that everyone can enjoy them, or you can just join in without posting. Either way there's a Facebook page and Twitter feed in addition to the NaPoWriMo site, so there are plenty of routes to get involved.

If it sounds like your cup of tea, I'll see you there!

Heather

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