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Writing Challenges: November

November 8, 2007

This month’s writing challenges to myself:

  • Not NaNoWriMo.

Theme:

  • a happy poem.
  • race
  • gender
  • darkness, without cliché.

Structure:

  • villanelle
  • title first, poem second
  • mimic other poets
  • don’t use “you” or “I”

Rewrite/Rework:

  • “Seeds” (November 2006)
  • “Motel” (November 2006)
  • “Inheritance” (September 2007)
  • “Paul Banks” (October 2007)
  • “Liam Ross” (November 2007)