It's NaNoWriMo! (National Novel Writing Month) I decided not to write a novel this month, but I still wanted to challenge myself somehow. I'm writing a poem a day instead (at least). Part of the joy of NaNoWriMo is there's no pressure to write well, just write. So that's what I'm trying to do with my poems. They're exercises, and I'm trying out some forms I don't usually use to write. It's a good challenge. Of my current 24 poems, I might have three good lines. This is good. It's not a concerto, it's a scale. :)
The last one I wrote was about the couple at the library today who were frustrated with the copy machine. I wrote three today, and one of them took me about an hour. It feels good to work at words.
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