Welcome to the PoCoChapMo ‘24 Chapbook Progress Updates thread!
This space is dedicated to sharing your journey as you compile and create your chapbook from all the incredible work you’ve done during this month. Whether you’re just starting to organize your poems, revising your drafts, or working on your final design, we’d love to hear about your progress!
What to Share:
Current Status: Where are you in the process of creating your chapbook? Organizing poems, revising, designing, or almost done?
Challenges: What challenges have you faced in turning your poems into a cohesive chapbook? How are you working through them?
Victories: Share your small and big wins! Whether it’s completing a first draft or finalizing the title, we want to celebrate with you.
Design Ideas: Are you working on the cover, or considering different formats? Share your ideas or get feedback from fellow participants.
Support Requests: If you’re feeling stuck or need feedback on any part of your chapbook, this is a supportive space to seek advice and ideas from the community.
Remember:
No Rush: Everyone works at their own pace. This thread is here to encourage and support you, no matter where you are in the process.
Collaborate and Support: Feel free to offer advice, feedback, or even just a virtual high-five to fellow participants.
Let’s keep the energy going as we work towards completing our chapbooks! Share your progress, and let’s inspire each other to bring our poetic creations to life.
Happy writing and compiling! 🌟
With nothing new to write for it today, turning towards actually figure this out now... about a week ago I started pulling out the poems I think I am going to include. If I count the Haiku & other super short poems as 1 poem each, I am at I think 17 poems... though I am vacillating on some of them.
My plan is to make sure they are all in the condition I want them in and do a first pass at sequencing them and see if there is a gap I can fill with something else I wrote in the month, or if something stands out in a bad way. I am also currently debating if I want to dive back into InDesign (it's been about 6 years since I've used it but I do technically know how to - and could get a free trial again 🤔) or hack my way through it in either Canva or misusing Photoshop.
My current cover design idea involves polaroid emulsion transfers or some other mixed media situation, at one point I thought about having them be truly 1/1 - but I think I may scan them, not sure yet there. It's possible that whole idea will go out the window.