Welcome to National Poetry Writing Month, also known as NaPoWriMo! Your task is to write thirty poems during the thirty days of April. This group is dedicated to helping you churn out those thirty poems by providing you with prompts, challenges and inspiring discussion.
Welcome to National Poetry Writing Month, also known as NaPoWriMo! Your task is to write thirty poems during the thirty days of April. This group is dedicated to helping you churn out those thirty poems by providing you with prompts, challenges and inspiring discussion.
There are four folders set up, one for each of the weeks of April. Please submit your poem according to the day it was intended for (consecutively), not the day you posted it. Also, we do not accept entry to later weeks. Those folders will remain closed until that week arrives.
In accordance with the above, please indicate in your author's description and/or the title that the poem was written for NaPoWriMo (you can simply put the group's icon if you like) and which day the poem was written for - i.e. "day 5" or "April 5th". If you're not writing one poem per day, you can simply put "poem #5" and we will consider it as written for day five.
There is a limit of three deviations per day.
While we do accept multiple poems in one deviation, we will accept no more than 7 at a time. So PLEASE have them in this format: Week 1 (poems 1-7), Week 2(8-14) etc. You naturally can have less than 7 in one deviation, but no more than that. So no 17 deviations in one single shot.
No old deviations. All pieces must be new as of April 1st. Nothing before. No exceptions.
About NaPoWriMo
Your task: write thirty poems in thirty days. You don't have to write one per day, but it's highly recommended. They can be as short or as long as you want. They can also be any form you want, or free-verse! It's up to you. They don't have to be your best. Take the month of May to fix them up if you like (National Poetry Editing Month, anyone?) You don't have to finish - but if you do, there may be prizes to be won!
Well, we're officially at the halfway point for NaPoWriMo 2022. How are you guys faring so far? Still got gas in the tank to push through the next two weeks? OR are you like me and are already 3 days behind Whatever the case, we still have more NaPo to look forward to!!
Just a few quick reminders before we get to the prompts! The gallery folder for week 3 is now open! So, you can submit poems for days 15-21. Please don't forget to include the day/number in your author's description as well as indicating that it's for NaPoWriMo (the usual). Note: the other folders from previous weeks do NOT close. So if you're starting late or are behind, you can still submit to the appropriate folder. Just ensure to submit to the right place.
Also, now that we have 3 folders open -- please try to ensure that you don't accidentally submit a week 1 poem to the week 2 folder, or vice versa. Otherwise, we'll have to reject it.
We're still looking for prize donations for the winner's pool! Anything from points, comments, llamas, features, etc. are very welcome, so send a note over to me if you'd like to donate.
Ink-Singer : Llamas to all winner, and comment/critique + feature to 5 randomly chosen winners
That's it so far! So if you are able to donate anything (or I forgot to add your donation), please let us know.
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Discord:
Just a reminder that we do have a discord! Invite is here: https://discord.gg/E9ZCckvb4S <--just click here, and you'll be in! If you are unsure what we use this for, please refer back to the "Welcome to NaPo 2022" journal from Week 1!
Other updates before we begin:
Week 2 Challenge has ended, so no additional entries will be accepted! We will begin judging tomorrow.
I will post the Challenge for Week 3 later in the day today (or tomorrow depending on your time zone lol)
Winner for Challenge 1 will be announced today too.
Now! With all that out of the way, I present to you the prompts for Week 3!
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Words/Quotes
Labyrinthine -- Twisting and turning.Lassitude -- Weariness, listlessness.Opulent -- Lush, luxuriant.Vestigial -- In trace amounts.Chatoyant -- Like a cat's eye.Erstwhile -- At one time, for a time.Inglenook -- A cozy nook by the hearth.Mellifluous -- Sweet sounding.Halcyon -- Happy, sunny, care-free.Susurrous -- Whispering, hissing. "There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed." -- Ray Goforth "Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable." -- Coco Chanel "The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes." -- Frank Lloyd Wright "Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down." -- Charles F. Kettering "Mathematics began to seem too much like puzzle solving. Physics is puzzle solving, too, but of puzzles created by nature, not by the mind of man." -- Maria Goeppert Mayer "No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen." -- Minor White Prompts
Write a poem about how you assembled a puzzle or game from your childhood. Focus on the imagery, the pieces, intention and focus.
Write a love poem to your favorite book. Be sure to flip through the book, focusing on what you found was most meaningful.
List the three most inconvenient things that happened to you today. Now write a poem about at least one of them.
Write a poem from the perspective of a creature that lives in a cave or in the deep sea.
Listen to a song you really enjoy. Focus on your most favorite part of the music. Write a poem about all the sensations, images, feelings, lyrics and other components of that specific part of the song.
Imagine yourself living 300 or more years ago. You still have the same personality and body. Write a poem about yourself and your interactions and with the people of that time.
So, I just wanted to take a moment to thank each and every one of you within this group. It does not matter if you completed all 30 poems or only 1 poem this month, this group would not be what it has become since I took over in 2015 without you guys. It is a constant delight to be running this special group, and I sincerely look forward to saddling up each year to go through this literary rollercoaster with everyone. I know dA, and the lit community in particular, is not what it used to be. Other OGs can attest to this. But you guys have been resilient despite that, and it means a lot to me to see this group continue where many others have not. So, yet again, thank you from the bottom of my heart for being some of the very best of the literature community on deviant Art <3 Also, super special shout out to my admin team:
If you did note the group and I somehow missed you, please let me know. lol
I'm so proud of everyone in this group, whether you completed all 30 days/poems or not. NaPo is a difficult challenge to take on, as it's hard to stay inspired for that long, and sometimes life gets in the way.
However, the people above managed to make it to the end! So, let me recap our amazing prizes.
Ink-Singer : Llamas to all winner, and comment/critique + feature to 5 randomly chosen winners
Thank you for all for joining us this year, and I hope to see you guys again (in whatever capacity it may be) again for NaPo 2023. I will be reaching out to prize donators via note tomorrow, points will be distributed out and then will begin with features for all winners tomorrow as well. Take care <3
Welcome to National Poetry Writing Month, also known as NaPoWriMo! Your task is to write thirty poems during the thirty days of April. This group is dedicated to helping you churn out those thirty poems by providing you with prompts, challenges and inspiring discussion.
Welcome to National Poetry Writing Month, also known as NaPoWriMo! Your task is to write thirty poems during the thirty days of April. This group is dedicated to helping you churn out those thirty poems by providing you with prompts, challenges and inspiring discussion.
In case I was being too literal with "note" in the instructions (I sent the journal via a note to the group), I am also placing it here, just in case. I will be out of town tomorrow and the weekend, so am doing this now.
Hey, I'm suuuuper late with this, but I'd like to join up on the discord server and the invite link from week 1 is no longer valid could I have an invite?
Hiya! I think the admins for this group have done an amazing job working through all the submissions despite all the glitches in the DA system outside of their control. The only one of mine that looks like it slipped through the cracks was called "Lida Lane", and if it makes it then it makes it, if not then no biggie. This has still been an adventure for a sci fi writer like me haha! Thank you again, admins, for all the work you continue to put in! This is incredible 🖤
Ah, that means alot! I'm so glad you're enjoying yourself. It makes all this so worth it <3 We appreciate your patience with all the dA issues giving us trouble this year. Xyron7777777 got your piece sorted, so you should be good to go. Let us know if anything else seems odd throughout the month. Keeping my fingers crossed the issue has been resolved. And ooo sci fi, you say? I'd love to read. If you want, feel free to note my personal account with some pieces to read!
Thanks for the kind words! We're running a skeleton crew, but we're dedicated to keeping things running. Our overlord, Medoriko is a absolute beast and 0% of this would be possible without her at the helm.
I went ahead and sent a request to add "Lida Lane" to the 8-14 folder. Sorry it slipped past us! We think we might have figured it out and stopped any new units from missing out on our gallery, but we also opened up a channel in our NaPoWriMo discord for anyone who has this same problem in the future. Feel free to send one of us a message if you're interested in joining us there as well!