NaPM April 30, 2017

[rayheinrich]

@Teagan - I've really enjoyed your poems- but have a confession. I thought you were a woman. The name threw me I guess. Assumption. Doh. I thought - Now there's a strong woman. Never questioned it until I read the 'he' in this poem.

Hello just mercedes,
 
Easy assumption to make. I fall into the same thing regularly.  I also too easily assume the author and the narrator are the same person, which is usually true, but not always.  For myself, I think it helps my writing to sometimes use a Narrator of different gender.  For the record, I am male, my current avatar is genuine, and I am complemented to be thought, based on my writing, to be a strong woman.

And thank you for the freedom you have given me this NaPo season.  Each day when I log on to get the new prompt, I see your poem, already posted, which blows the doors off.  You set the bar so high I feel free to run under it in any direction I want.

T

Yeah, she's too damn good... but since I get to read her poems, there's a positive trade-off.
Oh! And she cheats! She's a New Zealander and when the topic was posted it was 4pm her time.
This does not explain how she was usually able to complete her poem in a few hours, but I does help to know
she was awake when she was doing it (even though I suspect she would be able to do it in her sleep as well).