Happy National Poetry Month Week 4

Credit image: National Poetry Month logo/Poets.org

 

Happy National Poetry Month! It’s week four and today’s poem I’ve share before. But I believe it needs as many mentions as possible.

Come listen to the poem that made me a fan of Danez Smith.

Are you a fan yet? What are you doing to celebrate National Poetry Month? Who’s your favorite poet? Why?

PS Poem in Your Pocket Day is this Thursday, April 26th. Here’s the link to this year’s poems. Choose a poem, print them out and carry it in your pocket to share with others. I’ll be sharing too.

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Upcoming Winter Twitter Pitch Parties Not to Miss

#RevPit and #SFFPit is over but there other twitter pitch parties this winter to look forward to. But why should you enter a pitch party when you’ve never gotten a like/heart before? Well there’s several reasons.

As Richard Bach once said, “A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit.” Becoming an author is not based on writing a book. There’s four facets of being an author: writing, marketing, promoting and publishing. And to publish you have to query.

NaNoWriMo Week 2 Update

Happy Monday everyone! How are my WriMo’s doing? It’s now week three of NaNoWriMo and if I want to make goal I’ll have to step it up this week because Thanksgiving next week. And we all know preparations for this particular holiday starts days, a week or two before.

So how did I do last week, week two of NaNoWriMo? Let’s see.

NaNoWriMo Week 1 Update

Happy Monday everyone! And whoo, you have no idea how close that today’s post wouldn’t have been available at his regular blog schedule. Had every intention of writing and posting something much later today. But alas, here I am close to midnight and typing away.

Anyways, NaNoWriMo began last Wednesday. How am I doing so far? Well I’m off to a slow start but I am a slow writer so I guess you can say I’m on track.