Archive for the ‘Writing Challenges’ Category:
Written on January 1st, 2014 by adminno shouts
2014 has began and it is time to start a fresh with the writing, if you are anything like us here at WoPo you will find that during the year your poetic focus drifts. January is the perfect time to fix this!
Look at your daily commitments, and slot yourself in for a writing space – each and every day. It only has to be five minutes but it has to happen. This will help you get into a routine. You may not write much at first but as the days pass you will find it easier to slip into the writing zone.
Ideas will then likely start occurring when it is not your writing time, to deal with this text yourself the idea or carry a small pocket note book to jot things down in. If you are stuck for ideas, do not fret, there are always plenty of exercises on this blog to help you.
HAPPY NEW YEAR – now get writing 🙂
Written on April 6th, 2013 by adminno shouts
As part of National Poetry Writing Month the Tell Me More site is collection tweeted poems under the hash tag TMMPoetry. Go and check out the website and the hash tag – they have done similar initiatives in the past with wonderful creative effect!
The 140 characters of twitter means that poets have to streamline their thought process, it lends itself nicely to the shorter forms and can be some what more challenging than writing an essay in our experience!
Another thing that is good to try is the creation of an epic poem via tweets – entire novels have been writing in little 140 character snippets so why not an epic poem?
Epic poems in this instant being very long novel length poems rather than just brilliant glittering literary gems though of course they may be those as well!
If you do not have twitter then adapt the challenge to Facebook or Google Plus, start a page up specifically for the purpose.
Written on March 28th, 2013 by adminno shouts
It is nearly the end of March and though spring has failed to spring into action here in the UK exciting poetry writing spring time fun is almost upon us. April’s poem a day challenge NaPoWriMo!
Remember poetry challenges do not have to be restrictive in form or type poem, you may feel like a change so why not try a month of creating visual poetry or poetry cards for people?
If that does not appeal there are loads of fantastic advice on the NaPo site plus the archive here on WoPo.
« Newer Posts