#writingmonth

[prof-grace-aspen]

For folks looking to do something instead of NaNoWriMo, someone on Mastodon has started up a site!!

Writing Month is coming soon

WritingMonth wants to serve a similar purpose as NaNoWriMo but without the baggage.

[overlookeronthewing]

I've decided to finish the NaNoWriMo I began (and mostly wrote, not thoroughly that's a different modifier entirely) in 2023. In all honesty, I have burnt edges on my fingers and my thoughts.

But in the meantime, it seems like writing a poem a day would do wonder, quite literally, to worlds. No story well-told goes well without wonder, anyhow.

And despite words, there's nothing very literal about a whole story, da? It's layers that can be faintly iterated, never literated: Letter only set a stage; and that stage is rounded by sleep, the place we remember, if we've forgotten, that hearts and stories are neither literal nor linear. Paradoxically, they still have their exits and entrances.

--

it isn't in me, say

he puts down pennies, a piece of clay

counter-clatter, nails chewed back--

to pay.

A regal lack.

Stacked.

Copper mossed, grey, say

I tell him,

if you can't pay--

But he takes it all back,

scrambled rattled ring

into his pockets, drops it--

at least half--

And I close the shop that day,

and the ferry at the back.

Say, have you watched the river

roll away

of late

to Hades.

I like to tell the poets

how much it costs. Say

I like to know it

makes them put the

drama

on

a

page.

[thewrimoblog]

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[consolecadet]

Things I’ve looked up for my November novel, day 28

Intent and sentiment analysis

Bombay Duck discogs

Total words written: 46,936

Words written today: 1,837

Excerpt from today:

Daisy looks affronted. “You’re not one of those reverse healthmaxxers, are you?” she says, drawing her eyes up and down Xamira’s body, reassessing her.

[consolecadet]

Things I’ve looked up for my November novel, day 27

Black lab capitalization

Cavelike synonym

RFF phalloplasty scar

Selvage

Surname that sounds like sandal

Sunset time Mountain View CA March 29

SF Giants

Jewish deli meats

Total words written: 45,099

Words written today: 1,718

Excerpt from today:

She has also been seeing, and resenting, these charcuterie boards on Yap and Rio Social, with their matzo-inspired crackers and inexplicable pork-based cured meats, and she is not looking forward to this. But she is trying to be a process-oriented team player, or whatever, so she will try it.

[consolecadet]

Nice to have a day where I wrote mostly dialogue and therefore didn't have to look very many things up

[consolecadet]

Things I’ve looked up for my November novel, day 26

Door jamb

Diaphanous

Capybara sounds

Total words written: 43,381

Words written today: 1,817

Excerpt from today:

The pop musician daughter is in Loukanis’ office. Xamira saw her bobble past maybe twenty minutes ago in a diaphanous, iridescent dress over a flesh-tone leotard and an ankle-threatening pair of pink platform Crocs, carrying a tote bag with one of those trendy cat-capybara hybrids in it.

[consolecadet]

Things I’ve looked up for my November novel, day 25

Pansy-Ass Ceramics

Water lily the same as lotus?

Type of restaurant to have tasting menu

Mullions, muntins

Total words written: 41,827

Words written today: 1,817

Excerpt from today:

“Oh my god,” Courtney says. Padma can’t say shit like this to her. Sarcastically: “Is your dad gonna buy me implants?”

Well, that was an inside thought that didn’t stay inside. Courtney really wants to bring up the molecular gastronomy restaurant Padma’s parents bought and ran into the ground before its third seasonal tasting menu could even launch, how they throw money at stupid shit and don’t even notice when it doesn’t work out.

“Are they gonna buy you a breast reduction?” Courtney says.