#Vallum poetry contest how to

#Vallum poetry contest how to

All I know is that I will not be giving any workshops on how to do it. Probably someone knows the trick to inserting a video into a blog post. So I will send it separately on Facebook, even though the process was excruciating. (insert apology here for saying I’m adding a video without following through…)Īnd now that I’ve written this post I find that I am not able to add a video to my post. Sometimes pain and little gain…But I did it! That much I can be proud of. Thank you Vallum, for suggesting that I try this and for the digital publication.

For about a minute’s poetry that will remain somewhere in the universe forever and be seen by perhaps seven people, all related to me, or who owe me favours. Here I am banning my husband from his own house and shutting an innocent little bird into the bedroom. Go through the whole miss-a-word, add-a-word, forget-a-phrase sequences until finally, it’s going well…and Ted walks in and Desirée the parrot starts to sqwawk. (recalling how, in grade three, I was a really great oral reader…)Īnd don’t I look terrified! I realize the light is wrong so move downstairs, laptop, accompanying cords, mouse and mouse pad…Try again as the parrot is asleep and Ted is out so it’s quiet. I managed to do things like that quite a few times. Or you get halfway through the poem and screw it up. What fun it is to think you’ve got it, then the video makes you look like a loon on funny drugs. The experience was not a happy one, at least I wasn’t happy with the results after trying about twenty versions. The first clue: after half an hour just trying to get this image to be right side up (yes, I used the edit functions, yes I renamed it, yes I tried various other image variabilities) it’s going to stay this way now.Īt the beginning of this little project I thought that’s great, I’ll learn how to do make a video and post other poems on my blog…īackstory: A poem was accepted by Vallum for its ‘Chase’ theme, Issue 15:2, and I agreed to make a video of the poem for Vallum’s digital issue.