NaPoWriMo - Lacey Louwagie

My Last Day of One Job, Embarking on Another

Yesterday was my last official day as Teen Services Librarian for the Marshall-Lyon County Library. My heart is sort of breaking over it–I loved that job so much, but it was a two-hour commute, one way, once a week. I’m still processing all of that, and might blog

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NaPoWriMo: The Home Stretch!

If I can write two more poems before midnight tomorrow, I will have completed my first successful NaPoWriMo. In an ideal world where there is always enough time for writing, my fiction would not have had to take such a blow so I could write poetry this month. But the

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Live From New York City!

I’m writing this from a computer lab at my temporary residence in New York City, where I’ve landed to work on the Religious Institute‘s new “faith and sexuality” guidebook on bisexuality and faith. I’m surrounded by what has been called the “dream team” of bisexual activism

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NaPoWriMo: Ice Storm Poetry

Poem #9: Ice and Thunder It is a time of ice and thunder the dog cowering in the doorway brass tacks on the glass and trees groaning outside. Love is an action, not a feeling this is what Jesus taught us Their power will be out for days and I

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NaPoWriMo: Day 8

So far, I’ve been successful in writing one poem a day for the first week of April (although not all have been successful poems). Here are a few of my first drafts. Poem #5: Dinosaur Teeth That summer we were twelve I didn’t know that only bubble-gum string

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NaNoEdMo not quite there ... NaPoWriMo has Arrived!

Last night, I came home from the Easter festivities bearing a headache from too much sugar but still determined to log my last two hours to achieve victory in NaNoEdMo … even though editing was really the last thing in the world I wanted to do. Still, I was mostly dismayed

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Back to Writing ... at Last!

After the long wedding-induced haitus, I am SO GLAD to be back to writing at last. A lot has happened in my “writing life” even though very little of it was actually writing. But hey, the writing world didn’t stop spinning because I neglected my desk. Imagine that! 1.

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Poetry, Short Stories, and Realizations

A good friend just reminded me that today marks the beginning of Story-a-Day May–a challenge to write a story every day for a month. This comes on the heels, of course, of Poetry Month and Script Frenzy, a challenge to write 30 poems in a month and to write

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Put Those Poems to Good Use

I just entered three of my poems from National Poetry Writing Month into WEbook‘s poetry contest. WEbook calls themselves the “American Idol” of creative writing. Essentially, it’s a vast web community of writers and readers who write, upload, read, and critique the user-generated content on the site. From

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NaPoWriMo: Did She Make It?

Yes, I did manage to write my three remaining poems last night, much to my own surprise. I had to read them again this morning to see what they said because I was so tired when I wrote them. This is the good thing about a writing practice: at a

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An hour and a half, and 3 Poems to Go

There’s an hour and a half left of April, I’m dead tired, and I have to squeeze out 3 more poems. The good news is, I just compiled the 27 I did manage to write, and they aren’t as bad as I thought they were. I originally

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NaPoWriMo: Observations

There are only two days (counting today) of NaPoWriMo left, and I have just a handful of poems to finish. A few of the things I noticed during the month: * When it comes to poetry, I do far better with structure than with free-verse. With free-verse, there are just too

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National Poetry Writing Month: Magnetic Poetry

Not feeling very intrinsically inspired to write poetry last night, I finally whipped out the magnetic poetry for some help: Poems always look more fun as magnets, but in case that image is too blurry, this is the poem: This storm is hard music to face: A metal rain hurricane.

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Imitation: The Sincerest Form of Flattery

So, another one of my tips for poetry month was to imitate another poet. I did an exercise like this in college once and loved it, except it was with prose. Essentially, I took a paragraph and replaced verb for verb, preposition for preposition, noun for noun, comma for comma.

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What's Happening in my Writing World

Here’s what’s been happening in my Writing World in the past five days: 1. I fell off the NaPoWriMo poem-a-day wagon and am running behind it trying to get back on. 2. Despite this, I’m regretting not taking the plunge and trying Script Frenzy. Perhaps next year.

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Last minute markets: Scripts and Poetry

In honor of ScriptFrenzy and NaPoWriMo, here are a couple last-minute markets for scripts and poems. Scriptapalooza fee: $45, prize see below, Deadline is April 15th, 2009 Must be 18 or older to enter. Any genre will be considered. Multiple submissions are accepted, but one application form and entry fee

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Who doesn't LOVE a love poem?

Yet another way to cheat during NaPoWriMo. My poem: My Love Your skin glows like the pear, blossoms luscious as the rose in the purest hope of spring. My heart follows your saxophone voice and leaps like a kitty at the whisper of your name. The evening floats in on

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NaPoWriMo Tips

Despite my complaints, I’ve managed to write a poem a day for the first two days of N aPoWriMo. If you’re not so comfortable with outright cheating, here are a few ideas to help you break through writer’s block. 1. Use magnetic poetry. Magnetic poetry actually takes

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How to Cheat During NaPoWriMo

After confessing that I was stressing about a poem a day, a friend left a comment with this site that would allow NaPoWriMo cheating, if one does so desire. Here’s the poem I got: A mountainous range stood before the cold Little Red Riding Hood Scoff not at my

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April Writing Challenges

It’s the last day of March, and if you find yourself a sucker for writing challenges, roll up your sleeves for April. April is the month for Script Frenzy, a challenge to write a 100-page script in 30 days, and it’s also National Poetry Writing Month (NaPoWriMo) with