Yesterday was the end of NaPoWriMo 2020. I’m sure coronavirus made these poems bleaker than normal. I’m also sure my zapped energy levels made some of the poets a bit Wallace-Stevensish and too vague on certain days.
The month sped by however. Each year feels like it's a shorter time span of work.
Notes on my process this year: the only thing I researched ahead of time were the list of self help topics. Each morning around 8 am I began to work out a poem with some raw notes. Then I’d log onto my computer and draft the thing out, polishing it as much as I could before I ran out of time and had to start work.
Here is the full set:
The Death of Self Help
- Mastering the Wheel
- Nobody Else Is Their
- Setting Goals
- Take It Easy
- MessyVerse
- The Magic of PPT
- Ten (Contextually Snarky) Words to Improve Your Vocabulary
- Mouse in the Maze
- Sinkhole
- Time Boss
- Good Habits are Rice Cakes
- Dealing with Grief
- Preach
- Good Boy!
- Identity Politics
- Vulnerable
- Syns of the Self
- Treasure Island
- Electric Fence
- Fresh Start
- Something Is Happening
- Self-Help Workbook
- Side One: Furtiveness
- Side Two: Assertiveness
- Restaurants
- Scaffolding
- Range of Motion
- The Great Love
- Mount Catharsis
- The End
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