My Year of Writing Dangerously

On the spur of one of my (increasingly rare) moments of inspiration, I decided that in order to maintain my artistic integrity, and because I can't keep calling myself a writer for much longer without actually WRITING something, I am going to write a poem a day for the next year. The first poem will be posted on August 10, 2010 and the last poem will be posted on August 10, 2011. (Unless, of course, I decide to keep going.) Not all of the poems will be good, and DEFINITELY not all of them will be interesting, but I will gaze around my kitchen, my living room, and Coming Home Cafe until something inspires me, then write a poem about it, as well as my random thoughts on the mundane things that no one notices, but which it is my goal to immortalize over the course of this year.



Friday, September 17, 2010

Catching Up

Okay. Here's the deal. As of this moment, I am 15 days behind. I am going to get caught up TONIGHT. I have some ideas that will allow this process to be much more stimulating and interesting both for me and the people who may happen to be reading this than simply writing 15 boring old limericks.
1. Finish and post a few poems that I have that are currently in process
2. Since music is so huge for me, I thought I would use music as inspiration by writing a series of poems starting with the first lines of some of my favourite songs
3. There are a few classical poem forms I have learned about recently that I am itching to try (Terza Rima, Ghazal)
4. Maybe some similar to the poems I have been reading in my Lit class lately, which are Beowulf, The Canterbury Tales, and Hamlet
5. Once all the above options are exhausted, I will finish getting caught up with a few limericks, if needed
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