NaBloPoMo Redux
Posted on | November 1, 2007 |
It’s that time of night where I feel my bones become heavy, and I can neither make myself get up and go to bed, nor do anything constructive here at the keyboard. The stories are mostly tatters anyway, but I’m using this month of NaBloPoMo to really hunker down and write. I’ve been thinking about spending more time capturing the ‘glimmers’ of every day. The small shreds of story I overhear; the scenes that present themselves. Usually I overlook them, trusting my faulty memory to hold the small bits of scene in place until I wearily find my way to the keyboard. But it never turns out that way. I end up never sitting down.
So for me this month will be one of recording details; glimmers; taking note of the small, unremarkable, bright shards of day that become story when wedged back to back. It will be a record of autumn turning towards winter: the hills washed suddenly gray with the first hard rains. The field in the morning dusted with frost. The dry heat of the wood stove filling the kitchen with snug warmth, and the moon as big and perfect as a dinner plate rising up golden over the crest of the hill.
What do you want to take note of this November?
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November 1st, 2007 @ 10:46 pm
Hey! I am so excited you are doing it too!
November 2nd, 2007 @ 12:24 am
of all of the blogs I read regularly, I have to say yours is a favorite. your posts draw me in as I already think you are pretty fantastic at capturing the glimmers of life.
I love your perspective on November though. Happy Daily Blogging!
November 2nd, 2007 @ 7:22 am
Yay! I’m delighted to know I’ll get more of one of my favorite writers,…nay, favorite PEOPLE, for a month. I want to record the speed with which my children are growing. The beauty of the autumn colors. The fact that the worlds spins so fast and I will soon have been here for 11 years! 11 years! Time flies.
November 2nd, 2007 @ 2:13 pm
Yay! I love when you do NaBloPoMo!!
I want to record the growing of my belly - much bigger than the first pregnancy; Porter REALLY enjoying the fall/winter seasons like never before; and just appreciating those little things that I forget to notice when I get so busy.
Glad your Halloween went well!!
November 2nd, 2007 @ 9:12 pm
It makes me so happy, happy, to think of hearing more from you. Love the picture of your inspiration board. I may spend my posts on something like this - taking notice of the little things.
November 3rd, 2007 @ 8:31 am
thank you for this post…i love the word “glimmers”…this month i am taking note of: the abundant love & gratitude in my heart & in the world; my delight in the season of fall & thanksgiving; my practice this month of aparigraha (a “yama” or restraint/control in the yogic tradition, meaning non-possessiveness/non-attachment); the opportunities & invitations in my current work & in the work i am creating; and, my creative expression.