2026 NaPM After Hours

[RiverNotch]

duke I think you also got gold? which is pretty awesome

were these prompts much harder than last time or have they been somehow easier? i definitely struggled most with Oceania, since i barely knew anything about the place. but it's damn rewarding to try writing something, for thirty days, that could feasibly be taken as one coherent whole. tempted to have the whole series workshopped as one thread, with the main goal of figuring out which ones need to be entirely reconceived xD

Congrats you guys, impressive. For me the prompts this year were harder because most didn't spark an idea on their own and for me, even researching to mine for an idea, it's uncomfortable to write about what I don't fully know. That's just me, much respect to both of you who stuck with this challenge.

What was your experience like to write in the same form daily?

I think it made some things easier, especially if I didn't really know what to write about---like, I could start with doggerel that isn't entirely senseless, due to the constraints of the rhythm, and have the entry evolve from there---but then some days I have the clearest idea that initially will not fit the form, or there was even one day where the form fit the idea too well, and I realized I needed to cut things down in order to finish within the day. But sticking with a form was maybe secondary to having to do some research over so many places xD I don't know if writing poetry is as associated with doing prior research as, say, writing historical fiction, but it's enlightening to fuse these modes, so to speak

The threads remain open, like they usually do, so it would be fun to see what your take would eventually be for some of the regions you missed