It is the end of the second week and though you may not want to hear this, that means you are half way through this month of poetry mayhem!

Many have already finished – and if that is the case then fantastic and well done! But don’t sit back on those laurels, why not aim for a doubled target? That’s right, we are suggesting you write another 28 poems – just keep doing a bit of writing every day until the end of the month. Or if you feel confident enough you could start editing. We here at WoPoWriMo prefer to leave the poems to lay fallow for a while, meaning we like to ignore them for a month or so before looking at them again. This gives us time to forget what we meant and see instead what we have actually written!

And for those of you who are behind? Do not worry – just keep trying every day – if you are finding it hard then don’t try to catch up, just try for ‘damage minimization’ and do a poem a day from now on! Who knows, you may get into the swing of things and do a poetic sprint towards the end!

Of course today’s poem should be easy enough to manage – love it or hate it, it is Valentines Day! So write a romantic love poem or an unromantic hate poem or an unromantic love poem or a romantic hate poem.

Good luck from team WoPo!