The Challenge

This challenge was born in the fertile imagination of my son Adam. He has been putting himself through a fairly rigourous physical regimen and tracking his results. He decided to extend this effort of self-improvement to his creative side as well, and instituted the 66 Day Poetry Challenge. This blog will be the record of my attempts to complete the exercises.

His original description of the challenge follows:

For the next 66 days, I'll be writing one poem a day. Each day's poem will be one sentence longer than the last (configured however). Which means that new formats will become available as time goes by!! It's about cultivating the creative habit, and constraints help, and 66 days is the average for habit acquisition.

I'll add topics as we go, and they'll be drawn from the group, but to start here's the first week:

1. Change
2. Fear
3. Will
4. Winter
5. Family
6. Quiet
7. Hunger

Have more ideas? Submit them! :D And the more the merrier on the poems themselves! Also, feel free to invite more people, on one condition : they need to either provide a topic, or join the challenge! This is not to show off, this is to flex our writing muscles!! So feel free to fail, flounder, and fly! 

 So here we go, Day 1 is the 17th of December, 2012.