Isn't it a little early to plan April's 30 in 30?

Hell no it isn't. It's been 3 years since I even attempted it. This year one of my goals is to get that done again. It is a challenge someone invented for National Poetry Writing Month (NaPoWriMo). No clue who it was or why, but when I heard about it I liked the idea. The idea as I heard it was to post whatever you wrote that day on social media. I don't think I ever did that last part of it, but I still tried to write 30 poems in 30 days. I was successful with the time frame 2 years in a row. Then life happened and I got distracted from it for the past few years.

I found what worked the best was to come up with a massive list of random titles for poems that I can then use during that 30 day period to knock out some of the ideas. It's a good chance to test out ideas and explore themes repeatedly until I've found what it is about them that I really draws me in.

This year I'm not sure how I'll handle it. I feel like an important step for it would be to post it to social media, but I don't really have Facebook anymore and no one is on Google + that is paying enough attention for it to count. I could try Instagram this year, but I'm not entirely sure everybody would be able to read my hand writing.

Jesus, I'm already looking for excuses not to do it. Bad habits die kicking and screaming. 2016 is cold-hearted though and gives no shits about my excuses, so between now and April I gotta figure out the best social media platform (aside from my ignored blog of course) to share my 30 in 30 poems on.

Over the next 90-ish days, I'm going to prep for getting it done and done on time this year. I'm gonna spend my prep time creating a title list, looking at old poems I like, and fixing ones I don't. It'll remind me I am capable of meeting my own expectations and practice at my least favorite part of writing: editing old work.