The blinds are blowing in the cool wind, Leon is putting our new small cabinets together for me to stuff with my books and crafts and accounting. The front room of the condo is finally arranged the way we both want it, only art work to go.
And, today is November 1, 2008, the first day of my second attempt at 50,000 words in a month.
I love NaNoWriMo, in part, because it gives me an excuse to write something other than poetry. I don’t have to share it with anyone, not that I haven’t wanted to share sections of my 2006 attempt, there are parts of that I was wonderfully surprised at. They make me smile to this day. That alone was worth the effort, but it was an incredibly awesome experience: you know, the journey is where life really shows its glory. So, any afterglow was/is/will be like winning a lottery.
But, the thrill was that characters made an appearance on the keyboard, that they were sometimes quite clever, that they lived in my mind and honored me by making an appearance, that I was not let down.
Tonight, I sat at Leon’s laptop in an attempt to start this year’s 50,000 words. I had a title, “Why Don’t Washing Machines Beep” – nothing else. As with poetry prompts, words came out: not many, nothing brilliant, but the connection was made with my Muse, my Subconscious, my inner self — whatever you choose to call it. That alone made me smile, grin, and dare to hope that it will continue. So, to be different, each time I write, I will post only one or two sentences I wrote that day… No set up, no connections, just the fun of posting a sentence or two as a future memory. It will be a reminder that my Muse made her presence known when I was stressed over work and misbehaving computers.
Hopefully, yours is visiting, you as well. Enjoy the journey. I’m heading back to MeeAugraphie to post my first couple of sentences. It’s gonna be a fun month for those of us participating.
I really wish they would move this to like January or February when the weather is so crappy I have tons of extra time to participate because I do nothing else.
Enjoy your month!
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Way to go Marcia, you manage every year to reach the 50,000 word goal and I know you’ll do it again. My first reaction is—where can she go with “Why don’t washing machines beep.” Will you be able to weave in the couple from your previous work? I hope you revive them, it was an interesting theme. Chris
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This kind of explained what the purpose was for you in some ways to do this writing adventure and gave me a bit of a definition. I just need a website which is bound to be somewhere. 50K words seems like nothing when we type all day at the computer. “stressed over work and misbehaving computers. ”
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