Good afternoon and welcome to my wrap-up for #NaPoWriMo 2024: better late than never. 😉
In total I wrote 40 poems in April. And at the start of this month I made a couple submissions. Other than that I’ve been busy sending out graduation announcements and catching up on all the chores I let fall by the wayside when I’m enmeshed in poetry madness. WordPress sent my April statistics the other day, so I thought I’d share them here. One plus to not getting to my wrap-up on May 1st.
Thank you to all my readers who have joined me in April and everyone who left me comments. I appreciate your time and encouragement. Hopefully I’ll be back soon with poetry submission news.
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Congrats, Veronica, on completing so many poems and submissions, too. Your stats are impressive. May all your submissions be fruitful!
I can’t say how many poems I wrote during the month. I tried, but lost count a few days here and there. I played with quite a few prompts that I wouldn’t have normally done, and even created a few poems I’m glad I wrote. The fact that you were working so hard to accomplish the goal of a poem a day made me write more (and different) poems than I normally would. Thanks!
I wish you continued success in your writing and educational endeavors. ~Nan
Nan, Thank you. The past few years it has felt like less people have been coming to read my poetic endeavors in April than when I first started following NaPoWriMo in 2010. I’m glad I was able to inspire you to try new forms and shared them with me and your readers. Even after all these years I still learn about new forms or find new poets I enjoy reading. I’m happy you may find new forms you enjoy as well.
Veronica, I’m sorry more people haven’t viewed/read your poetry over time. That’s sad particularly since you are a dedicated poet. Very few of my poems ended up on my blog although I posted them on the prompt sites. I’ve thought about posting them in my blog, but have been too busy and/or lazy to get it done.Maybe soon, though. I shared the one about pizza at a poetry reading, and it may be my favorite new poem I’ve written during April. ~Nan
I read a previous NaPoWriMo poem about living with cats at an open mic night back in March. A couple people came up and told me how fun they thought it was. And I’m sure readers appreciated your poems on the other sites. I always check the comments left on Maureen’s prompts.
Veronica, I found her prompts fun to do. Not that I wrote a poem for all of them, but then I was away for several days and got way behind and gave up trying to write to all of her prompts. I was also getting daily prompts from the Cuyahoga County Library (in Cleveland, Ohio) so it became overwhelming to me. That I got a few poems out of all these different prompts make me happy. Some poems were just silly, but fun to write any way. ~Nan
Nan I’m always impressed with poets who can follow more than one prompt page. I would check out the prompts from Writer’s Digest and Virginia G Piper’s writing center in previous years, but it does get overwhelming.
Veronica, I didn’t do very well following them. I’d read them, but decide quickly whether I would participate in any particular prompt. I would write what I wanted because I didn’t have the time. As I indicated earlier, lazy and/or busy…so that’s why I was not as successful as you are.