How Will I Approach The Vocal Fall Poetry Series?

Introduction

Vocal's multi-challenge drops still disturb me. Although theer is no pressure to do them all at once, and we have plenty of time, there is something in my mind saying that I need to get these done.

The details of the latest challenges are here, and they are all poetry, a dozen of them.

At the moment, there are thirteen open challenges, because the final poetry one from the last drop is still live.

My Strategy

I usually step back and take on one task at a time. I do the same thing when I have to deal with multiple work tasks, and I always manage them through to completion.

I don't know why I get slightly panicky because I know these are well within my grasp.

Because they are all poetry, I have a natural aversion to posting more than one poem at a time.

The first challenge requests a haiku, and people will flood this because a haiku is very short. That challenge is here:

I have placed my entry in this and already entered the one from the last Challenge drop. I have since written and published four non-poems.

That is going to be my strategy.

One challenge poem a day, and then other stories unrelated to the challenges. The other stories might be poems, but not for the challenges.

I am looking to use the Sestina and Terza Rima forms where the form is not specified, but I will only enter each one once.

While I can usually enter multiple fiction entries, poems are different for me, so it will just be the dozen entries.

Conclusion

Thank you for reading, and I hope it has given you some food for thought.

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