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[dahled]

this year i will participate in april's 30/30.

any advice from y'all that do it every year?

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[lowhumcrush]

start reading. like TONS of poems RIGHT NOW. then stop the day before you start.

[dahled]

ahh, i like it. get myself all full'a poetry then stop with the intake and start with the in-make as it were.

[ratpackslim]

There will be days when you got nothin'.

This is when you may birth your best shit.

Be open.

[dahled]

i hear ya. let it flow... 'cause it wants to.

[conditionbronze]

if you got the time. Stock up. Do more than one poem. You can just revise on the days you are stuck. Every day ain't a new poem day. But every day is a good day to work on poems.

although I admit it is kinda cheating. But whatever. Whose gonna do anything about it.

[dahled]

cool. i think this is where i got stuck the last time i started, one day i didn't/couldn't, that became two days, etc, etc...

[nerak_g]

i do the poem stock, too.some days, three, others one or none.
it's to get the process going.if you're going to cheat using the haiku route,do 5 or 7 of them at a go.

[dahled]

yeah, haiku's kinda feel like cheating, i try to avoid them. this is good for when i can't, and i know there will be those days.

[touchyourbrain]

make a list for your self about all those poems you've been meaning to write, all those topics that you know will birth a poem but you haven't sat down yet to tackle it. Even just quotes, images, or songs that trigger the emotional memory for you.

[dahled]

yes! great thing to have in general. much better than keeping stuff knocking around in my head like i am now.