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<\/p>\nAnother year\u2019s half marathon come and gone. As I often point out, I prefer to do the half marathon because I like to sleep; consequently doing the full 24-hour marathon simply wouldn\u2019t work for me, as it would take me at least a couple of days to get back to normal.<\/p>\n
Making things easier this year was my recent acquisition of Scrivener. Thanks to the program\u2019s separate panes, I was able to have the prompt always visible as I wrote:<\/p>\n
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As before, I worked with all the prompts for the sake of simplicity. That said, a couple of them still gave me trouble. For example, for the hour 5 prompt calling for a poem about a dream, nothing immediately came to mind, so I dug out a couple of my old journals that I knew included detailed descriptions of dreams I\u2019d had. The problem was that the ones I still have dim memories of today turned out to be not that interesting. I finally just picked one and tried to reduce it to the barest details (taking a couple of liberties along the way). Similarly, none of the photos in the hour 4 prompt did much for me\u2014and my first choice (the black-and-white photo of the woman next to the tipped-over stool) felt a little too obvious for me. And the song chosen for the hour 7 prompt was not at all my taste, so I had to take some time to find something I would find more inspiring.<\/p>\n
In the end, most poems took me 30\u201345 minutes to write, lightly edit, and post. On the whole, I think they turned out all right. At least, I didn\u2019t hate any of the poems I posted.<\/p>\n