The now annual April Poetry Month Challenge has started over at Robert Lee Brewer’s Poetic Asides. Basically, he gives a prompt every day and you churn out a poem. I’ve had several friends do this (and I sort of half did it once, lol)…one of them has had several poems published now. It’s a great way to get a body of poems to work on without a lot of judgment on your part…how much time do you really have to agonize over a poem if you are generating one a day? Plus it’s just a fun community to be a part of. Let me know here if you are doing it…I’m considering it, but I’ve got a Computers in Libraries presentation coming up on the 12th and my creative energy might be tapped out working on it.

Tomorrow (October 13th) at noon Eastern, Neil Gaiman is going to tweet the first line of a new story, which will then be continued by fans. I cannot imagine how this will be compiled, but BBC Audio is claiming that it will then be recorded and available for download.

How on earth anyone will make sense of a cacophony of thousands, I do not know. They plan to stop 1000 tweets–but I think the response will be much greater–Gaiman has more than 1.2 Million followers on Twitter. I missed the inspirational Twitter Opera event entirely, but I’m fascinated by the idea of a crowd-sourced story. You can follow the excitement (or contribute to it) by searching for the #bbcawdio hashtag on Twitter or using this search. The format for contributing is @BBCAA Your Tweet Here #bbcawdio.

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