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Living Poetry Writing Month
Unleash Your Inner Wordsmith
August 1–30
Living
Poetry Writing Month
(LiPoWriMo) starts August 1 as we lead into our first PINOT & POETRY
session on September 5. Unleash your inner wordsmith for thirty days
and nights. There are no rules (except to keep writing), so turn off your mental
editor, stifle those brain whispers that limit your ability to express
yourself, and bathe in the beauty of words. It might be a single-line poem each
day, or it might be an epic poem that you grow throughout the month, or it
might be something in between.
There is no
pressure to be perfect. The idea of LiPoWriMo is the same as NaNoWriMo
(National Novel Writing Month). Don’t stop to edit—just keep writing. If you
stop to edit, the art of raw creation is stalled, and once you turn on your
inner editor, it’s often impossible to recapture that creativity. If you want
to edit, try to save it for September.
Your poems are
for you to enjoy and develop. You do not have to share them. Though if you’d
like to share them at any point, you are welcome to do so on our private Living
Writers Collective Facebook page.
Even if you
aren’t a poet, writing poetry—even if you perceive it as bad poetry—strengthens
any writing you do. So I encourage you all to join us for LiPoWriMo.
Post By: LWC Director, Karen Aldridge
(connect with Karen at www.facebook.com/karen.d.aldridge
or at info@livingwriterscollective.com)
