How many poems did you submit in 2019?
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Ahavati said:I have no idea how many I created in 2018, much less this year! How do you even figure that out? If I can I'll answer your last two questions! LOL!
Go backwards in your poems until you hit the previous year. There's 12 poems per page. That's the only way I am aware of!
Ohhh! Don't forget to count your NaPo entry as 30!
And remember those other accounts you have ....!
Go backwards in your poems until you hit the previous year. There's 12 poems per page. That's the only way I am aware of!
Ohhh! Don't forget to count your NaPo entry as 30!
And remember those other accounts you have ....!
Okay, including all accounts, NaPo, posts in the pond and elsewhere unpublished, roughly 200 last year. I don't think I was less productive this year ( except on certain accounts ( particularly Starling ) where I took a break because certain members were constantly attributing the poems to be about themselves - #peace and all that jive ); nor was I more productive. I feel I've remained on a steady and even keel of creation for years now. It's naturally innate and seems to just happen without effort. I never force the poem; I always wait. Sometimes they come subsequently in days; other times once a week.
It is what it is: Poetry.
It is what it is: Poetry.
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Ahavati said:Okay, including all accounts, NaPo, posts in the pond and elsewhere unpublished, roughly 200 last year. I don't think I was less productive this year ( except on certain accounts ( particularly Starling ) where I took a break because certain members were constantly attributing the poems to be about themselves - #peace and all that jive ); nor was I more productive. I feel I've remained on a steady and even keel of creation for years now. It's naturally innate and seems to just happen without effort. I never force the poem; I always wait. Sometimes they come subsequently in days; other times once a week.
It is what it is: Poetry.
Awesome!
Yes, it is. 📝❤
It is what it is: Poetry.
Awesome!
Yes, it is. 📝❤
Strictly JohnnyBlaze .....
2019 --- 151 + about a dozen not submitted to DUP yet
2018 --- 117
2017 --- 132
2016 --- 18
2015 --- 24
I excluded a bunch of poems I wrote prior to 2014, which is why these numbers don't add up to my current 499.
The major leap after 2016 is simply due to being able to devote more time to writing, bettering my writing skills through actively critiquing and participating in more challenges such as NaPoWriMo - all with the benefit of Ahavati's encouragement and critiques of her own.
I would attribute the increase in 2019 to a healthy handful of minimalistic writings ( didn't require as much time and focus ). Also, being more focused in saying what I wanted to say as opposed to experimentation or flying blind. And there is more writing not factored in, such as the daily updates for NaPo 2019.
So, I would say I've increased my production based on these numbers, but ..... I still have 4 more accounts to tabulate. Those numbers might prove me wrong LOL.
2019 --- 151 + about a dozen not submitted to DUP yet
2018 --- 117
2017 --- 132
2016 --- 18
2015 --- 24
I excluded a bunch of poems I wrote prior to 2014, which is why these numbers don't add up to my current 499.
The major leap after 2016 is simply due to being able to devote more time to writing, bettering my writing skills through actively critiquing and participating in more challenges such as NaPoWriMo - all with the benefit of Ahavati's encouragement and critiques of her own.
I would attribute the increase in 2019 to a healthy handful of minimalistic writings ( didn't require as much time and focus ). Also, being more focused in saying what I wanted to say as opposed to experimentation or flying blind. And there is more writing not factored in, such as the daily updates for NaPo 2019.
So, I would say I've increased my production based on these numbers, but ..... I still have 4 more accounts to tabulate. Those numbers might prove me wrong LOL.
case28 said:Three poems in 2019 and five in 2018... I guess it comes down to quality and not quantity, and no time to wank.
Unless you are referring to yourself personally, that's not necessarily true. There are excellent poets who are consistent in offerings, and there are those who aren't. Take Mary Oliver, for example, who published 400+ poems ( Devotions, 2017 ) just one year after publishing a 178 page of Selected Essays ( Upstream:, 2016), just one year after publishing 80+ ( Felicity, 2015) poems, and so on, and so. . . seriously - she was a machine gun poet!
Every one of them receiving over a four-plus star out of five rating. Poetry is in the blood or it's a pastime.
So, yeah; not necessarily.
In your case ( no pun intended ) I know your country has had a very difficult time this year. Two years or so ago the Carolina Mountains almost burned completely across the Blue Ridge Parkway. It was a nightmare so I do hope it's improving there, and you receive rain and relief.
Unless you are referring to yourself personally, that's not necessarily true. There are excellent poets who are consistent in offerings, and there are those who aren't. Take Mary Oliver, for example, who published 400+ poems ( Devotions, 2017 ) just one year after publishing a 178 page of Selected Essays ( Upstream:, 2016), just one year after publishing 80+ ( Felicity, 2015) poems, and so on, and so. . . seriously - she was a machine gun poet!
Every one of them receiving over a four-plus star out of five rating. Poetry is in the blood or it's a pastime.
So, yeah; not necessarily.
In your case ( no pun intended ) I know your country has had a very difficult time this year. Two years or so ago the Carolina Mountains almost burned completely across the Blue Ridge Parkway. It was a nightmare so I do hope it's improving there, and you receive rain and relief.
