Welcome to the PoCoChapMo ‘24 Chat Room & Lounge!
This is your space to relax, unwind, and connect with fellow poets on the PoCoChapMo journey. Think of this thread as a virtual lounge where you can share your thoughts, updates, and experiences throughout the challenge.
What Can You Share Here?
Daily Updates: Let us know how your writing is going! Whether you’ve just penned a new poem, hit a creative block, or had a breakthrough moment, we want to hear about it.
Challenges & Triumphs: Share any challenges you’re facing, as well as the triumphs, big or small. This is a supportive space where we can all encourage and inspire each other.
Inspiration: Found something that inspired you? A quote, a book, a song? Share it with the group!
General Chat: Sometimes, you just need a break from writing. Use this thread to chat about anything—from your favourite poetry collections to what’s going on in your day-to-day life.
Why Join the Chat?
PoCoChapMo is more than just a writing challenge; it’s a community. Connecting with others on a similar journey can provide motivation, new ideas, and a sense of camaraderie. Plus, it’s always nice to have a space to unwind and talk about our shared love of poetry.
So, grab a cup of coffee (or tea), pull up a chair, and join the conversation. We’re all in this together!
Happy writing and chatting!
Hey everyone! I was hoping to have one last zoom call with you all and read out the selected poems for our official chapbook, but it wasn't meant to be! Below are the selected poems for the chapbook, and I will reach out individually to you all on how you would like me to send you the eBook! Selected poems: Finding Her Way Back Home - C.L.A.S
Know it all - C.L.A.S
Renewed - Lori Carlson
Renewed (Haubun) - Lori Carlson
Where I'd rather be - Mark Stevenson
Grief Comes in Waves - Mark Stevenson
Not Lost But I Do Wander - Genevieve Parker
Calling Yourself Home - Genevieve Parker
Somewhere We Wait - Gallagher Green
Hidden Words - Gallagher Green
Untitled - Heather Hughes
Lone Tree - Heather Hughes
The Teachings Of Land And Water - Michael Cunliffe
Elegy to September - Sara Lando
Fog Catchers - Sara Lando
Ruins of Broughton - NC
Good Grief - NC
Hey everyone! Next Friday is when the official Cove Chapbook comes out and I thought it might be a nice way to wrap everything up with a last zoom call? We could maybe even share the individual books on stream, and read from them too if you like?
Hey folks!
I’m slowly winding down the category and putting them into archive (😭😭😭😭)
I have of course kept the progress, chat room, and resources threads open until October 18th.
We will also have a last farewell meeting for anyone that wishes to meet one last time for the challenge… maybe even show us their chapbook?
Otherwise I am slowly integrating myself back into regular forum life. Would love to see some of you there too, if you fancy it. You all have access to New Members, General Discussion and Poetry Discussion. 🖤🖤🖤
I don't believe I have an elegy in me today, though I did apparently have the first 1-4 lines of 8 attempts haha. If I string them all together with no care about mixed metaphors and other wild inconsistencies... that might be long enough to be a reasonable poem 🫠
That said, I do think I have a decent beginning of something else... but not sure yet how to wrap it up.
Just posted WAY too many poems in the finished poems thread. LOL
Hello lovely poets! As discussed I have added a new thread for progress updates on chapbooks. The official last day of PoCoChapMo is October 18th after that the threads will be archived and that will be the end of our first challenge! 😢
I will also start compiling the official Cove chapbook from tomorrow so do be sure to get your finished submissions in ASAP
If anyone wants to us photos for their book or for the cover, Deposit Photos is a stock image site that is pretty cheap and trusted to have the copyright (some sites will sell you photos they don't have rights to). A lot of authors that do their own cover work use them. Thought I would mention it. P.S. Their search is really bad, and the search filter is worthless, don't even try it.
Here are some of the resources I mentioned in the chat.
CISS - continuous ink supply system. There are also a lot of printers with this built-in (sometimes called "tank printers" or "re-fillable printers), but there are a lot of printers out there you can modify to save money. Do some research and make sure things are compatible. I found this site and know nothing about then, but it gives you an idea of what's out there. http://www.inksystem.com/
This is a free program to read EPUB files on your desktop/laptop, it isn't perfect, but handy for checking things over. https://calibre-ebook.com/
This guy has great videos on everything self-publishing. He does sale programs as well to make things easier, but he tells how to do it without the programs as well. He often post new videos that are up to date with the ever changing KDP.
Keywords: https://youtu.be/vinXgGNxEzk?si=J7brOmtQb_5gVqb4
Categories: https://youtu.be/VqPVvcqQCGk?si=HIS6yNLtBtRYsNJD
This is a video about their free AI book description generator that will also polish up existing descriptions. I haven't really used it, and really should. LOL https://youtu.be/tOxPHuCUw40?si=Z3_frelCM8dz2eg3
It's funny to get an advertising email from Amazon for book you have written (under a pen name)
Hello all! Below is the link to our final check-in of the challenge 😢 and Herb’s Chapbook Meeting Part 2.
7:30pm BST
The Poetry Cove is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: PoCoChapMo Chapbook - Professional
Time: Sep 28, 2024 07:30 PM London
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81400177740
Meeting ID: 814 0017 7740
Hi folks! For those of you who missed it:
Day 23: prompt: home or arriving at I place that feels right. I will try again in the morning. I know what I want to write, but I can't express it. It's a very personal thing (which is out of form for me) and I think it is causing me to not find the words. I also feel like learning the different forms of poetry are making it hard to get my brain in to free form without it feeling wrong. So I will either try again in the morning, or write something less personal.
Sorry it’s taken nearly a week. So much going on I feel like my head is about to fall off from screwing my neck so much looking in all directions. Does that make sense!? 😂🤪 like if you had blue tac and twisted it enough, it would halve?
Anyway I will upload last Saturdays meeting to our YouTube today for those who couldn’t make it, and I’ll post Saturday’s meeting link with Herb tomorrow! ☺️
I'm starting to feel the time pressure crunch now. I have 12 poems 'complete' but some being short I want to add more for my chapbook to fill in the white space. I deffintally want to spend the next two days on senryu and haiku. I also have 16 poems in half finsihed states. Either in first draft or outline stages. My days are spent looking back at the clock watching that hand tick by now.
Sorry to everyone whose work I didn't read over the past three or so days, I have had a surprising amount going on, and I don't even know what it is that's going on! LOL But, it seems everyday just disappears. I will try to do better. Everyone's work has been so great, and I know that those I haven't read have been just as great.
Again is a terrible word.
When I read it off the page it rhymes with 'maintain'. If I use it in a conversation the 'ai' is ditched for an 'e' and it rhymes with 'when'.
I don't know if this is a New Zealand thing or not but I asked co-workers and they all do it too.
It appears that I will still be writing poems from this challenge well into October, but I am not going to beat myself up over it. After almost 2 years of not writing poems regularly, the mere fact that I have written 7 is a reason to celebrate for me. Plus, I want quality poems, so the quantity isn't as important. Off to fix another pot of coffee and make a grand attempt at another poem this morning. See you all at the Zoom meeting.
good morning folks! Today is the day we finally have our publication talk! I have pasted the link below. 7:30pm BST !
Can’t wait to catch up with you all!
Wanting to get into a regular routine of release and a uniform fashion I made myself a template for my chapbook. One thing I want is images with my chapbooks. In design school I spent much time on collages and looking at band zines from around the city. I like the photocopy look and rustic cut out feel. I was very inspired by Terry Gilliams animation work in The Flying Circus, Using royalty free stock images and photos I take myself I thought I'd try to recapture those days gone of old. Here is a couple examples I threw together for poems I have writen this month. Still a couple weeks to determin if I stick to this 70-80s style of if I tweek.
Hi folks!
I just thought I’d let you know, inspired by your creativity I have used concrete poems as an activity in all my workshops this week! I showed everyone your poems on my phone to give them an idea of what they were aiming for and everyone has been so impressed by your creativity! Bravo, everyone!