[Due to time constraints, this post is raw and unedited. All typos, free. 😀 ]

So, I am a big fan of literary games. From Scrabble to poetry slam, I have enjoyed friendly competition as well as self-challenges for decades and 24-hour writer-thons, 30 poems in 30 days, the challenge of new performance work written collaboratively; all of it gets me wired but always with a purpose.

I am wrapping my 3rd collection of poems but also exploring topics for new projects. The way that I have prepped in the past remains largely the same: with short verse and micropoems every other day for a week or so, but also editing recent work left aside to settle in my brain for a few weeks or months just to get the ideas moving around again.

I have not moved into “cheat-mode”; only in the last day have I began making mental notes of topics and styles to tackle. If anyone needs any encouragement, you are the encouragement. If you get one decent piece out of it, you wrote this weekend and probably went hard at it.

I have completed a half; I have build my own based on haiku and micropoetry and wrote 102 haiku, senryu, tanka and one limerick [happened to be St Pat’s Day]; multiple times have I done 30 poems in 30 days (twice 60 for 60; once 90 for 90) and work from those sessions/sprees went on to be published and/or recorded. Mostly just enjoy the wave and the endorphins or creativity.