The Incendiary Lit Heroic Crown Affair Day 4
And we are on Day 4! Today pick one of the first lines you want to adapt to its own sonnet beginning. You should have a good idea of at least a couple narrative lines. Write one sonnet, whichever number it is. You need to break the ice somehow. Remember the end line has to the same as the first line of the following poem, so what I’d suggest is type (or write) the first line, then skip 12 lines and write the ending line. This gives you the necessary framework to remind you where exactly the poem has to get to. As you’re writing think very specifically of the verbs and of concrete nouns as you’re writing. Make them interesting. After day ten there will be a little break from sonneting, and we’ll breathe a little less iambic for a few days before we set in on leg two of the ILHCA. Whee!