Beginnings
During NaPoWriMo 2011, my muse began to dry up so I started creating wordles for myself, and offered them to other poets. It surprised me how many poets responded, and A Wordling Whirl of Sundays was born on blogger. For a series of reasons I moved to WordPress, and changed the blog name to The Sunday Whirl because it’s not such a mouthful.
Nitty Gritty
To participate, write a poem or short prose using some or all of the wordle words. Forms of the words are fine. Challenge yourself to use them all, but it is not a requirement. A wordle will be posted every Sunday at 12:01 a.m. Mountain Standard Time. Mister Linky will accept your posts. You have all week to write and visit other pieces inspired by the words. The Sunday Whirl has a Facebook page. If you follow us there, you will get the words on Friday night.
Play along, we’d love to have you join our community,
Brenda Warren
Hi. I was looking for a FOLLOW button somewhere. I see one down in the bottom corner now, but perhaps you should install one by your “Follow on Facebook” button?
Do you recommend a tag for ‘The Sunday Whirl’? (Maybe ‘TSW’? or ‘wordle’?).
Just wondering….
Have joined the ranks!
I’d love to try this! I came across Sunday Whirl from a fellow poet at dVerse. I’ll be back!
*Snooping commences* 😀
Hi, I’ve used one of your wordles before but thought it was posted by Yves from MLMM. She gave me your address so that I could link properly. Looking forward to participating whenever I can.
Welcome!
I want in!! Not realizing you were on hiatus, I did one or 2–but now I’ll follow you so that I can participate properly. Looking forward to your return!
I’d love to try this! I don’t know how consistent I would be but I think it would be interesting reading the creations of others!
Nice idea 🙂
PS typo alert
“… the words of
particpatingparticipating poets…”I would like to Join 🙂
Thank You
I just wanted to say that I love your wordles, even though I’m an on again off again wordler. 🙂
How fun! And I love your name. 😉 I’m new, but I’m game to give it a whirl. Just FYI, I write for kids on my site, kids of all ages, but that does mean I hold to certain content restrictions. I look forward to playing around with this week’s words.
This looks exciting. I would love to link up this week if time allows. At the very least, I will enjoy other writers’ takes on The Whirl.
I’ve seen this “Sunday Whirl” on so many of my fellow bloggers at dVerse…decided to drop by. A very nice site–I hope I can join you from time-to-time, Brenda. I love random word prompt like wordles and also use them when I’m stuck.
It’s my first time to be here. 🙂
So HOW you I link a post from my blog to yours? Alsfo, I am not sure what happens if I click on your link on the home page.
how fun!!! I found this on Inger’s blog, which is always full of beautiful poetry and images… Cannot wait to join the fun!
Don;t know where to post my wordle. I like doing wordles & this is my 1st. attempt at the sunday whirl.
The Anton Chekhov quote you’ve chosen is one of my favourites, and important for all writers. Looking forward to participating!
A couple of newbie questions: So I write and post something on my own site and link it here, right? This is fun. I hate to ask this, but are there any copyright issues?
Welcome Gerry…and yes. Link with Mr. Linky. There are no copyright issues that I’m aware of…anytime I use words from someone’s work…they are just words, and I link to the initial piece. If you can think of potential copyright issues, let me know.
Brenda, I was in the middle of writing when my note “went away,” for some reason, so you may get two replies. I wasn’t concerned about the words you use at all; I think it’s fair game to pull words from other sources. I believe I’ll find these exercises really freeing and lots of fun. Thanks!
Thanks – now I get it!