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« Result #1 on May 1, 2012, 5:48am »		[Quote]
Unfortunately I have a packed schedule between today and Thursday so I won't be able to start my poem until Friday. That's a terrible omen, isn't it?

I guess I'll just have to hike my daily line count up to 179 to compensate and hope for the best. ;)

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« Result #2 on Apr 7, 2012, 3:56am »		[Quote]
One week in and I'm glad I'm doing this. It's a nice little warm-up and it's easing me into poem writing gradually.

A breakdown so far...

3 cinquain
1 chouka
1 (imperfect) ricatmeter
1 haiku
1 freeform

6 mentioned color
3 include flower references
3 about the sky
2 have mentioned dreams

Hmmm... what can I learn from this breakdown... it's spring and I'm visually oriented?
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« Result #3 on Apr 2, 2012, 12:46am »		[Quote]
Well I've decided to give this a whirl.

One down, twenty-nine to go! :)
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« Result #4 on Mar 17, 2012, 12:52am »		[Quote]
With a grand total of ### lines (i'm not giving an actual number but i didn't crack four digits) I failed NEPMo rather badly last year and I've been thinking that partially it was because I had a cold start. I don't write a great deal of poetry and in the run-up to NEPMo last year I was scrambling to finish Screnzy so I was thinking in script format not verse.

So this year I've been pondering NaPoWriMo (National Poem Writing Month). The goal is to write a poem every day in April.

The big question is... will taking part in this challenge get me in the right mindset for NEPMo? Or will having a month of nonstop poem writing already under my belt cause me to burn out early?

Any thoughts?
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« Result #5 on Mar 16, 2012, 3:48am »		[Quote]
Cheers!

I'm Kenys your friendly neighborhood administrator. I took a shot at NEPMo last year, failed miserably and am eager to give it another shot!

In 2011 I tried using syllabic poetry with rhyming couplets at the end of each stanza. I found that a bit... rigid *cough* so this year I'm going to try free verse and see how that works out for me. I have vague glimmerings of a plot but nothing concrete yet.

45 days left to prepare. :)
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« Result #6 on Mar 16, 2012, 3:15am »		[Quote]
What is National Epic Poetry Month?

NEPMo is a challenge to write a 5,000 line epic poem during the month of May.


What is an epic poem?

Wikipedia defines an epic poem as "a lengthy narrative poem, ordinarily concerning a serious subject containing details of heroic deeds and events significant to a culture or nation." That's a bit too constrictive so for the purpose of this challenge an epic poem will be defined as "a lengthy narrative poem".


How long is 5,000 lines?

It's a little shorter then Longfellow's The Song of Hiawatha, half the length of Tennyson's Idylls of the King or Milton's Paradise Lost, a third of the length of The Illiad and a seventh the length of Spencer's The Faerie Queen.

With 12pt Times New Roman 5,000 lines would run around 115 pages.


How fast do I have to write?

If you'd like to write at an even pace then you should aim for 162 lines per day. That's somewhere between 3 1/2 and 4 pages.


Why???

I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?"
-George Bernard Shaw
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