WoPoWriMo is over – Victory (by sarah)

World Poetry Writing Month is over and have produced about twice as many poems as the target 🙂 Of course I did go to one poetry workshop which produced one of the poems and alot of them were generated by the writing game I've been designing!

I found the whole process very rewarding even though I was running all the web-stuff for the project!

I now have so much material I'm not really sure were to go with it!

Anyway alot of it is already up on Turquoise Monster - though I can already see where I want to edit a few of them.

Alaric also managed his 28 hiakus some of which are so bueatiful 🙂 Being Alaric they are on a thing meant for software development Git-Hub.

Mum also did 28 poems which can be seen on WoPoWriMo Poems.

Even Jeany has been writing poems which I'll try and get round to typing up :/ Though she did not do 28!

Over all the project has successful beyond what I was expecting 🙂

Dino-Art (by sarah)

I'm 'live-blogging' the process of produce my next piece of Palaeo-Art on Salaric Craft.

The Frog and The Fiddle (by sarah)

Tuesday I went along to what is essentially a University of Gloucester (I think) event that has been opened up to the public. It is held at the Frog and Fiddle in Cheltenham in their 'barn'.

I really liked the evening though I had to leave early - but I did get up and read 🙂 I also put flyers out for WoPoWriMo 🙂

I was incredibly nervous about this night as it was full of people who like study poetry and things - again the only thing I could speak authoritively on was Interzone and their submitting process :/

100 Stories For Haiti (by sarah)

I found about four hours before the deadline that there was a 100 stories for Haiti book project asking for submissions to help raise money for the earthquake victims.

So I hurriedly altered one of my stories and sent it too them last night - I was first stuck with a feeling that I wouldn't have anything to give them as they didn't want anything with Death, violence etc... it was the death one that stumped me - all the stories I have with the nice happy endings are ghost stories which were obviously out.

Anyway I found something and sent it off!

I had actually already mentioned something like this project as a possible money raiser after an argument about writing stories about the crisis itself.

Now I would encourage writing about suck heavy subjects as I feel they all to often get swept aside but I also feel you have to be careful and think before you fictionalise such a thing. Why? Becuase it would be easy to trivualise it.

How can you fictionalise a crisis why it is still going on? Unless you have actually been being there helping and are fictionalising your own experience - you need to research it or you will just get it all wrong. And I feel uneasy about writing about it whilst it is still a crisis - Apparently people felt helpless and wanted to show they cared - my reaction to this was simply - make an ebook of other stories and sell it to raise money then.

I'm not sure why I had such a strong reaction to this but Alaric thinks the same way too - he thinks you can't really fictionalise something like this until a yr or so afterwards.

Anyway they have now extended the deadline so if you have a story under 1000 words you might want to donate it 🙂

WoPoWriMo – World Poetry Writing Month (by sarah)

I am organising and taking part in WoPoWriMo which means that I have been setting up the web-site and facebook group and newsletter sign up and what have you.

Why am I doing this? Because I was asked too! And it sounds like a fun project:)

What will I be doing and expecting others to do?

Write a poem a day for the whole of February!

There is a Pledge to sign too 🙂

So you going to join in? I've even go Alaric pledged and excited - yes you heard me Alaric writing poetry!