Na/GloPoWriMo review: was it worth it?
This year I finally took over the National/Global Poetry Writing Month (GloPoWriMo, hence), inspired by the well-known NaNoWriMo, which I also gave a try last year. The concept, in case you are not familiar with it, is to write a poem a day for April, just like NaNoWriMo challenges you to write a 50.000-word-novel in November. So when you enter the website (which, by the way, does not include an incorporated word counter, contrary to NaNoWriMo's) during April, you’ll find the daily post with featured participants based on their responses to the prompt of the previous day, a recommended poetry journal or magazine, and an optional prompt. Below, you can share your response or read others’. But was it worth it to spend at least half an hour a day writing poetry for a whole month? In my case, and though I do not remember how I got to know about the website and this challenge, last year I was really looking forward to participating – I spent the last few months of the year writing sho...