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We are changing things up a bit this week. Rather than a scheduled host or series of hosts each taking a day and posting on a theme. We've decided to open the entire week up, and let anyone who wishes to participate in the Challenge the Poet's Tree Week Long Challenge participate without worrying about scheduling limitations. Anyone can post directly to the blog this week so long as those posts answer one of the two challenges. For writer's challenges it is okay to post poems on different days, for example one poem on Tuesday and another on Saturday. You will still qualify. Deadline for the contest is Saturday, November 10, at 11:59 EST.

Full details of the Challenges (including prizes).

Some helpful resources on writing serial poetry were provided a few weeks ago when hosted a wondrously rich week on the topic.

So You Want to Start a Series
How Poet and Audience Build a Series
Structural Considerations in Serial Poetry: Infrastructure
Structural Considerations in Serial Poetry: Foundations

If you can think of more resources other might find helpful, please provide the information in a comment.

We will be using this post to keep track of contributions. So please provide a link to your challenge response in the comments. That way we can have a one stop shopping center for this week's contributions.

Sunday: Climbing the Poet's Tree Week-Long Challenge post

Monday:
  • Intro post (current post)


Tuesday:


Wednesday:


Thursday:


Friday:


Saturday:
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This week we're going to allow our challenge to branch out a little. Rather than having individual hosts this week, we are opening things up to community for a week-long challenge. Normally our challenges go up on a Sunday and community members have two weeks to post a comment containing their challenge response itself or a link to that response. For this challenge we will be posting the challenge on Sunday as normal, however, we ask that responses be posted directly to the [community profile] poetree journal. You do not have to request a day. If you write your response on Monday and are ready to post it then, you can. If you write it Tuesday and want to post it Friday, you can. The limits are that your post must be an answer to one of the challenges, though poems for the writer's challenge may be posted on separate days, and your post must be up before 11:59 EDT on Saturday, November 10th.

For Writers:
Challenge #27: Write at least two linked poems. You may create your own series, or, if you have the permission of the author, write a poem for an established series. You must have the permission of the author if you are not writing in a series of your own creation. We do encourage people to play, to riff off each others' posts if others are amenable, and to have a good time with this.

Two open worlds to consider participating are [personal profile] ysabetwordsmith's Schrodinger's Heroes, and Ellen Million's Torn World. If you know of other open worlds that people might like to write two poems for, please provide the information in a comment to this post.

For Readers:
Challenge #28: Write a review of one of the poems posted under the serial poetry tag. Entry needs to be between 1 and 3 paragraphs and should reference how that particular poem fits into or informs the broader picture of the overall series.

This week's prizes:
Since the challenge is a little more difficult the prizes are a bit more substantial. Winner of each challenge gets zir choice of 50 dreamwidth points (the equivalent of a bit more than one month of paid time), 3 icons, or 1 15+ line poem continuing zir series. Icons or poem will be created by one of the admins, [personal profile] alee_grrl or [personal profile] jjhunter.

Details for both challenges )

Note that you do not have to be a member of POETREE, or even Dreamwidth for that matter, to participate. When you complete one of the challenges, please comment at this post with links to your poem or comments; if you complete both, please comment separately for each challenge. Deadline for challenge is Saturday, November 9, 2012 at 11:59 EDT. Winners will be announced on Sunday, November 18, 2012, which would allow our judge a full week to choose a winner.

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