05-09-2024, 12:01 PM
I like a few of the poems I made, but I like NAPM a lot because I don't worry as much if it's good or not as I normally would, it's just about making something. If you make enough things, you'll make something you like eventually - and you get better the more you write, even if it's barely discernible day by day.
Who cares if a poem is bad? Throw it in the trash and make something else tomorrow. Not worrying so much about something being good makes writing a little less painful to me.
I try to use the prompts to write about whatever I actually might want to write about on that particular day if there was no prompt. The prompt often gives you a metaphor or interesting idea to tie in.
Put all the poems you wrote you don't like in a word document - next time you're writing something and stuck on a line, flip through the trash poems and see if anything you've already thrown away might work.
Who cares if a poem is bad? Throw it in the trash and make something else tomorrow. Not worrying so much about something being good makes writing a little less painful to me.
I try to use the prompts to write about whatever I actually might want to write about on that particular day if there was no prompt. The prompt often gives you a metaphor or interesting idea to tie in.
Put all the poems you wrote you don't like in a word document - next time you're writing something and stuck on a line, flip through the trash poems and see if anything you've already thrown away might work.