PAD Challenge
I was looking at Writers Digest online. Mostly they are selling their how-to books, but now and then there is something I find interesting. I’m not a writer. Not even an amateur. Come to think of it, dilettante would be something of a stretch. But, in spurts, I write. And when I’m into it…
Well, I was looking for writing prompts. Because they are sometimes fun. Because they sometimes help. Maybe because it is easier to play online than to write.
And I ran across the April Poem-A-Day challenge link. It was the last day of March. I was bored. There were prompts.
What the hell.
I will confess here, that I stopped writing poetry except for the odd few lines, when everything I wrote was misery depression doom and gloom. Never bothered to re-read the crap, much less actually bother with polishing it. After all, who reads poetry? Not, for certain, me. And it seemed pretty sleezy to write in a genre I wouldn’t read for money.
But still. It was the language that I first wrote with success.
And it is something that it’s possible to complete. There is a lot to be said for that. Having flubbed NaNoWrimo for the past few years, I know firsthand that the simple act of finishing something is worth the attempt.
So. I am writing a poem a day for April. And, to appease the frequently-squelched ethicist in me, I am also reading among the poems posted for the challenge.
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