#theres a good chance im gonna put the collection on itch when im done bc im decently proud of it as microficiton

[planet4546b]

some scattered thoughts on poemaday april 2024:

-i am much worse at doing this consistently than i was when i last did it and then i am with nano. this is likely what 10 years of nano practice does to you and also the fact that it's much easier to catch up on a few days of missed poems than it is to catch up on 3k words when you miss a day of nano (ive been averaging 3 poems a day on the days i remember to do them)

-however i also think this matters slightly less because it seems like less of a vital skill wrt writing poetry to just be able to sit down and muscle through a couple thousand words in the way that you often need to with novel writing, so im not upset about this. not the point of the exercise so to speak

-i am so so glad i found a way back into writing poetry. i LOVE writing poetry and forgot just how fun it is and it's coming back to me wicked easily (i wrote poetry extremely regularly until probably 2021, i have hundreds of poems in the backlog, it's a skill ive put a lot of time into and feels good that the muscle memory is still there). some of the things i have written are absolute bangers if im honest

-my feelings on narrative/storytelling mean that narrative poetry ESPECIALLY is more fun than i could have imagined. it asks for both an extremely concise + economical mode of storytelling (+ especially of worldbuilding, a thing i often get very caught up in and now i have to do essentially through allusion alone) and truly asks what is and isn't important to include. and lets me play with storytelling + 'truth' in a fun way

POETRY FUN!!!!