I don't expect many entries, because AP poets are inherently lazy (myself included), but here's your task:
Enter a pre-write
then re-write the ending, or the middle, or the beginning, random lines... whatever...and make it about something entirely different.
Include the complete revision with the complete original, so I can see the difference side by side in one entry.
I don't care if you only change a line, so long as that single line totally changes what the poem is about.
Cut a poem in half, even, if that changes it's subject.
Please have the task completed before the contest closes, or your entry will be removed.
If you can accomplish this task in a rhyming piece, kudos, and I'd love to read it. However, I must admit I'm most happy with free verse.
Have fun.
Critical comments might be forthcoming. If you don't like it, please don't enter.
Enter a pre-write
then re-write the ending, or the middle, or the beginning, random lines... whatever...and make it about something entirely different.
Include the complete revision with the complete original, so I can see the difference side by side in one entry.
I don't care if you only change a line, so long as that single line totally changes what the poem is about.
Cut a poem in half, even, if that changes it's subject.
Please have the task completed before the contest closes, or your entry will be removed.
If you can accomplish this task in a rhyming piece, kudos, and I'd love to read it. However, I must admit I'm most happy with free verse.
Have fun.
Critical comments might be forthcoming. If you don't like it, please don't enter.
Contest is Over
- Contest was judged on August 1, 2008
- Rewards: Gold: 500, Silver: 300, Bronze: 200
- Final notes: Thanks so much everyone. I appreciate all the time you took to take on this challenge, and apologize for not completing my commenting. I'm in a mad dash with house-hunting and bidding wars that has recently consumed me. I hope you understand, and thank you again. The winners are true gems.
- To judge this contest, you need to have at least as many finalists as you have rewards. You have 3 awards but only 2 finalists.
Contest Winners
- Error: Unable to find finalist item 4454601, it seems to have been deleted :( [remove]
- Error: Unable to find finalist item 4340285, it seems to have been deleted :( [remove]
Entries [6]
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by SoldierOfTheCross 169 lines, 2 comments, on Jul 9 1:01 PM 2008• Commented on by judge. Prewrite
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Running through the thick grass;
a quick look back.by islekine 104 lines, 2 comments, on Jul 15 7:29 PM 2008• Commented on by judge. -
Okay poem was first about a boy that really likes me and I kind of like him but I can't seem to commit, the revised version is about a boyby kavi22 47 lines, on Jul 28 12:49 PM 2008• Viewed by judge. Prewrite
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Yeah. I'm one of those lazy ones, I reckon. I didn't even have the energy to read this whole thing. I suck.
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Now that's just sad.
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Bookmarked!
I will take awhile.
Not gonna half-ass this one. -
I'll be back
Need to do some thinking for this one - but if I get anything good I'll be back on! -
I really like this idea!
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oh oh oh i really like this...
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okay but...what if all of our poems are perfect in every aspect and we don't want to change anything about them? Have you ever thought about that? Cause quite frankly, I don't write many not-perfect poems. Just a thought.
but I might enter this anyways since, being perfect, I don't have any of the mundane, average qualities such as laziness and bad writingness.
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No. No you most certainly don't have those average qualities. Except... you know... the word "writingness"
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Hey, I felt "Envy" was perfect before I changed it, but it worked out pretty well. I think I may even stick with the change; I'm not really sure.
So, you should enter.
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INNNTTEEENNNSSSEEE >
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like, ouch lol.
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I like this idea !! I just recently expanded a poem; but I'm not sure it complies with your rules....I'm not sure how much the direction of the poem was changed..hm.
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I'll be back...
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You better, or I'll.... make a very sizeable threat... eventually.
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I am definitely doing this, I swear. LOL
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well damnit! Chop chop woman. I aint got all day... er.... week! Yeah. Week. Cuz I do pretty much have all day.
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I sort of want to keep the original as it is, but I also rewrote it for the contest. Would it be a problem if I entered my revision as a new poem, with the link to the pre-write in the AN?
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That works
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five days??? can it be a prewrite that isn't posted anymore?
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I really liked this idea for a contest, I had lots of fun rewriting one of my poems!
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Thank you.
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