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(5 hours ago)wasellajam Wrote: (snip)Compared to writing a different form each day, it was definitely easier writing in the same form every day - experience accumulates, little tricks like (in the case of sapphic stanzas) having a few good dactyls in mind the way you have a few good rhymes in mind with rhymed poetry, and working toward them. If there were a distinction, I'd give all-different an extra kudo, a small pearl, size of a fly's eye, to go with the gold. Or reduce all-same to electrum, my favorite precious metal
What was your experience like to write in the same form daily?
.All-different required additional research to dig up thirty forms (some, to me, quite obscure) while the form I chose for all-same was relatively brief blank verse. So research was limited to the assigned topic for a "hook" or two from which to hang it. @RiverNotch chose a more involved form and unifying project (a mythos of giants). Deserves extra credit as well as thanks for running the NAPM observance this year.
As a not disconnected aside, NAPM intersected with a real wealth of new piglets this year, to which I attribute the scarce (so far) responses. Important to attend to the newbies, and the NAPM threads are always here if inspiration from one of the prompts scores a late hit.
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