Biggest Writing Challenge Yet: Why Do I create these for myself? Oh, Yes. Word Love

 
I am up to a huge challenge Monday. Less than eleven hours away I will start, actually. Perhaps by the time you read this, I will be busily at it.

A part of me asks what the heck I was thinking when I made up this challenge. I can't blame anyone else but myself.

What is it?

On Monday, March 28, 2011 - I am going to write a poem length book in a day. It is called Upper La Cresta Sojourn (yes, the title came first, as a title of the project) and the plan is to follow the inspiration of Bernadette Mayer who wrote Midwinter Afternoon in one day, a poem length long form poem.

My plan is to write throughout the day at a variety of locations with the hope being I will find inspiration both in the ordinary life using many of the ordinary rhythms, but also to inject the inspiration of places around my home as a context for my words as well.

I also hope people will prompt me via twitter and text and if people come to sit alongside me as I write, I hope they "feed" me words and phrases as well so it is collaborative.

So - that's what I am up to. As wild as that sounds, I am excited for it.

Mostly!

Here are my locations for the day.

6 AM to 7:30 AM at my home, also known as The Writing Porch of JJS

7:30ish to 8:15 - Drive Samuel to school

8:15 - 9:15 - San Miguel Commemorative Grove

9:15 - 10:15 - The Panorama Bluffs

10:15 - 12:00 - The Espresso Cafe

12:00 - 3:00 - The Writing Porch of JJS

3:15 - 4:30 - Dagny's (my one non-Northeast Location)

4:30 - 5:30 - Pick up Samuel from VAC

5:30 - 9:30 - The Writing Porch of JJS

9:45 - 11ish - Cindy's

and then, falling to sleep in a pile of poetic bliss.

Or so the plan goes.

Send Word-Love and Positive Vibes, please!!

 

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Upper La Cresta Sojourn will be written on March 28, 2011 as a book-length poem. You may join in this once-in-a-lifetime poetry event by offering poetry prompts, words, phrases or your physical presence if you live in Bakersfield, California, where Julie Jordan Scott will be traveling around Upper La Cresta to write of her day, One Woman's Day ~ a testimony to the sacredness of daily witness as in the model of Bernadette Mayer's Landmark 1978 long form, book length poem Midwinter Day which was written on December 22, 1978. Visit JulieJordanScott.com to be updated throughout the day and to see where the Sojourn has taken Julie so you may join her.