NaPo23 Day 30 Inspo

One last piece! Today’s challenge is to write a Lipogram inspired by a piece of music.

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Image source: Inc. article: “Want to Boost Your Productivity? Science Says Listen to Music With These 6 Rules In Mind (A productivity hack that's a pleasure to implement.)”

Alternatively, you can seek inspiration in the Wikipedia “On This Day” article.

[Image description: An image of two earbud earphones splayed out on a white page. Between them in dot matrix art is a rainbow spectrum that either looks like music soundwaves or a cityscape reflected in water. End image description.]

NaPo23 Day 29 Inspo

Today’s challenge is to write a Sonnet inspired by the sea.

Image source: Country Living gallery of “25 Inspiring Ocean Quotes”

Alternatively, you can seek inspiration in the Wikipedia “On This Day” article.

[Image description: A dramatically curving wave in bright sunshine of the type much enamoured by surfers. End image description.]

NaPo23 Day 28 Inspo

Today’s challenge is to write a Liwuli inspired by your choice of subject.

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Image source: Lovingly hand-crafted in CorelDraw

Alternatively, you can seek inspiration in the Wikipedia “On This Day” article.

[Image description: A rainbow-coloured elaborate numeral 28 with the words 'Your choice' underneath in black. End image description.]

NaPo23 Day 27 Inspo

Today’s challenge is to write a your choice of poetry form inspired by a random passage from a book.

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Image source: Page Turner Awards 2020: City Fiction Prize

Alternatively, you can seek inspiration in the Wikipedia “On This Day” article.

[Image description: Against a dark background, a hardback book is open to let random, glowing letters spill upwards from its blank, white pages. End image description.]

NaPo23 Day 26 Inspo

Today’s challenge is to write a your choice of poetry form inspired by love.

Image source: Guardian article: “What is love – and is it all in the mind?”

Alternatively, you can seek inspiration in the Wikipedia “On This Day” article.

[Image description: An image that resembles a series of simple cartoon loveheart outlines as if cut out of successive layers receding backwards, pale pink on the top layer and shading through to the deep red of the central shape. Vaguely resembles the opening of the old-fashioned Warner Bros. cartoons. End image description.]

NaPo23 Day 25 Inspo

Today’s challenge is to write a Glosa inspired by today's weather.

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Image source: National Geographic resource library about weather

Alternatively, you can seek inspiration in the Wikipedia “On This Day” article.

[Image description: A dramatic, night-time photo of two large, jagged lightning bolts connecting the earth and dense cloud, which is brightly underlit by the lightning. There are multiple tendrils of subtly different colours arcing off the main bolts. A sheeting effect beyond the lightning seems to imply that it is raining very heavily. At the very bottom of the image is a town or city, showing tiny, mostly orange lights. End image description.]

NaPo23 Day 24 Inspo

With only a week to go, today’s challenge is to write a Mothra inspired by the random word generator.

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Image source: Wikicommons media file for letter dice

Alternatively, you can seek inspiration in the Wikipedia “On This Day” article.

[Image description: 12 yellow dice with black capital letters printed on them. Each has a smaller numeral to the bottom right of the letter. They are facing in a variety of directions and spell no recognisable word in English unless you're really reaching for one in the higgledy-piggledy combinations. End image description.]