April 28, 2008
Raising the White Flag
Posted by 9to5poet under NaPoWriMo, struggles, successes, writing exercise, writing habit | Tags: it's not quitting -- it's surrender |My worldly responsibilities got the best of me. Unfortunately, I missed Friday through Sunday of NaPoWriMo, because I was working on other things. I think the problem for me was that poetry takes a bit of attention and I put my attention in so many different directions. So, for now, I’m surrendering on NaPoWriMo, although I may crank out a few more quatrains on the bus this week.
So here is my final count for the project:
24 Poems Written
1 Prose Poem
1 Found Poem
12 Quatrains
4 Free Verse
1 Syllabic
2 Batches of American Sentences
2 Haiku
1 Ghazal
Overall, this is a darn good count and I’m proud of it. This is probably more poetry than I’ve written in 2-3 months, so I think that this project was still a success, even if I had to surrender with 6 days left. Maybe next year I’ll go the distance…