Mayday

[Tiger the Lion]

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.

You nailed it, WJ! 
NaPM or any of our other prompt related themes for that matter, are not meant to solicit polished work. They are meant to solicit a first blurt - I could write a thesis on the value of first blurts, but won't.  Sometimes one line, or even one cleverly played word is worth saving. I's not far from the idea of "write drunk, edit sober."