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.



Wednesday, October 13, 2010

YES!!!!

That's right. I'm back. And I HAVE THE ANSWER!!!!!

In my opinion, the greatest musical act in the history of the Universe is Sugarland and they have a new album being released next Tuesday. In celebration of that, I will be writing one poem based on each song they have every released between now and then. All total, that is 62 songs (minus five that are non-original songs from their Christmas album, plus one of those that is awesome and not cliched (and yes that means they wrote HALF of the songs on said Xmas album-how much more awesome can you get!!!) also minus three that are duplicates from their live album, and including one that is actually a Brooks & Dunn song (Red Dirt Road) of which Sugarland did a cover that I LOVE!!)

For those of you not good at fuzzy math, I will have posted 55 new poems by next Tuesday. Not only will I be caught up, I will actually be 35, that's right 35!!!!!!!! (please imagine that those numbers are in caps, even though that isn't a real thing) AHEAD of schedule, which will give me some buffer room if i should miss any days in the future.

If anyone is wondering about the fact that I won't technically HAVE to write a poem EVERY DAY if I have that many extra, I say to you first, I still plan on writing as many days as a possibly can, and second the point of this project was not for me to force myself to write EVERY SINGLE DAY, it was to force myself to write MANY MANY days and produce A LOT of poetry. I will write MANY MANY days and will produce A LOT of poetry so this is NOT jeapardising the project.

Prepare yourselves, I WILL post some poems tonight!!!
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