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FAQ
Mar 16, 2012 3:15:14 GMT -5
Post by Kenys Meyn on Mar 16, 2012 3:15:14 GMT -5
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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