Forever Distracted By Life
Race for the Crown 2024
Prompt 13
The Race Begins! Write a Crown of Sonnets.
Using the template provided; you should craft a fully finished first draft of a crown of sonnets:
(Technical support will not be available on the day of the event, so if there are any issues accessing the template it is recommended that you join the Friends of #FoDiByLi Facebook group as a copy of this document will also be uploaded there.)
A Crown of Sonnets is 15 individual linked sonnets where each successive sonnet start with a line from the 15th sonnet which you will have written during the first stage of the marathon. The first line of Sonnet 1 starts with line 1, and ends with line 2 of Sonnet 15; The first line of Sonnet 2 starts with line 2, and ends with line 3 of Sonnet 15…The first line of Sonnet 14 starts with line 14, and ends with line 1 of Sonnet 15.
Feel free to share your work here on Forever Distracted By Life or on any of the linked #FoDiByLi platforms below:
After the Marathon
All participants who took part in either stage of the marathon (whether you completed the event or not) should email their work within the spreadsheet template provided for the second stage of the event. This spreadsheet has spaces for your stage one poems as well as your crown of sonnets. Alternatively, you can send your work in an attached word document if you would prefer to do so. The title of this email should be ‘Race for the Crown Confirmation’.
These poems will not count as submissions, but poets who are confirmed to have completed all twelve poems from stage one, or the full crown from stage 2 will be sent a certificate to commemorate this achievement. All emails should be sent to dsc@fodibyli.com with the subject line ‘Race for the Crown Confirmation’.
All participants taking part in the second stage of the marathon will have one month to finish their Crown of Sonnets and send it to DS Coremans, crowns finished after this time are still an achievement but may not be considered for publication in this first anthology collection. However completed crowns should be sent to DS as soon as possible after they are finished, even if the draft is very rough, the email time signature will be used to confirm which three poets finish first and will be eligible for submission as the primary feature of the anthology collection which will open for submission later in the year.
With the current record for fastest finisher being DS Coremans with a finish time of 17 1/2 hours in 2022 could this be the year for someone else to be first across the line and claim their crown?
Musical Inspiration
Thanks for our musical accompaniments to today’s prompts go entirely to Mr Paul James. Paul is a Composer, Modular Artist, and Sound Designer who has graciously donated his time and his abundant talent to FoDiByLi in preparation for this event. If you have enjoyed listening to these tracks and would like to listen to them again as you write your redouble then head over to the FoDiByLi Youtube channel where all of the tracks will be made public after the event has completed.
Thank you Paul.
Friends of #FoDiByLi
If you would like to share your work in the private Facebook group set up specifically for sharing work and networking with other writers this is a fantastic way of being part of the FoDiByLi community during this event. You can share your work as comments under each hours post, and after the event those taking part may be able to offer their praise for the things they like about your work. To join, head over to Friends of #FoDiByLi and once you have been accepted into the group you can share your work and chat to the other poets and writers taking part.
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