and that's napowrimo for another year

so that's it done for another year despite telling myself last year that it would be the last! i had a much more structured approach this year (giving myself a bit of peace seing as i done it three times before!) but was quite prepared not to finished. being a wee bit more relaxed about it helped!

i decided early on that what i was looking for was thirty poems at the end of the month rather than a rigourous write a poem a day. i had notes and fragments of things i hadn't gotten around to sorted out and ready for use( read - i tidied up my notebooks!) as well as anticipating some of the pressure that being on holiday or shifts might provide - such is the joy of scheduler!

i didn't use prompts this year at all and have been putting my involvement with those kind of the back seat for a while. prompts are all fair and good but i was finding they were getting in the way of my own thoughts. which isn't to say in the future i won't pick up on a good prompt just not as frequently. i do like working visually and time on the bike was a good way of letting my thoughts wander - a voice recorder is a handy thing - but, as ever, reading a bunch of poetry seems to be the best stimulus for me to get some work done. that said i'm finding it increasingly difficult to balance reading poetry and prose far less writing the two - it seems to be one thing or the other but not both!

anyway thanks for all the comments. i have several sketches i may be wanting to finish so, you never know the next couple of weeks may see some napowrimo hangover writing, but after that  i must get back to some prose!