I’m excited and very very nervous!
About two years ago, I was invited to join a website called Channillo. As a writer, you can upload a series (that you must get approval for) and then people can subscribe and read them. Once a series earns $50, the writer is allowed to cash out, or donate it to charity through the Channillo platform. As a reader, a membership is about $5 a month and allows you to join as many different series as you’d like, with your subscription money going to the authors.
I have two previous series on the site but neither have done very well (after two years neither has reached the $50 mark yet). They were also both very limited in their scope and ended quickly. BUT I have been approved for another series! Which will be called “Paint Chip Poetry”.
Now the concept is simple, and I have done it here on this blog before for about a month way back in the fall of 2017. You take a paint chip paper, and using the colour names, you have to write a poem. Usually they are very simple and for me, the same number of lines as I have colours, but sometimes I get really inspired and create more. I don’t alter the names at all except to maybe add punctuation between words. Otherwise, they stay as they were given. Okies so on some of them I did alter the names but like instead of it saying “Green pond colour” I just wrote “green pond” or if it said “Orions Grey” I changed it to “Orion’s Grey”. This just makes sense and I don’t think it alters the rules of my game at all. But also, my game, my rules! haha!
In order to get ready for this, I had to take a lot of time and do some hard core organizing. I didn’t want to have the paper swatches in my house taking up space, so I went to a Canadian hardware store’s website and found their paint section. I selected the Behr type of paint and sat for two days making my swatches. I grouped them by 4 colours (they showed 8 squares across so this was perfect), and had to save a screen grab of each set of 4, and then open it in a paint program and type the name on each of the squares. It took a lot of work. Like at least 8 hours. BUT by the end I had almost 400 swatches to choose from! Then I added the names of the files to a random number generator, Wheel of Names, which then deletes the randomly selected swatch so it doesn’t get chosen again.
Each installment will include a spin of the wheel and finding the file for an upload. It took a while to get organized but I am glad that I have it all set up so now all I have to do is write.
Now I am telling you all this because my new series will begin tomorrow. I am actually quite nervous about it considering my last two series didn’t exactly take off. And also, I’m not really big into writing poetry but I feel inspired and confident in this. I have been wanting to get permission to do this series for about a year and a half now and I am so glad that I finally submitted a proposal for it and now it is happening!
What does that mean for you?! Welllll…..You can find my writings here under Paint Chip Poetry. I will be posting a new poem every Wednesday, starting tomorrow! I will also be posting the paint swatches each Wednesday on the blog (without the poems) and inviting you to play along.
Happy writing and reading everyone!
Oh my gosh, girl, you are brave. I am not the greatest at poetry, so while I love writing, this is not something I would be comfortable with. Good luck!!!
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Oooo goodness! I never thought I was good with poetry either but it is helpful to have words to guide you. The first one is available today! Yyaaayyyyy and I have until the end of February planned haha
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