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NaNoWriMo ’06

November 6, 2006

Halloween Detritus

I snapped this photo on the river path, the day after Halloween. I intended to upload and post it then, but I’ve been a bit distracted . . . [Today: 3694 words. So far: 20702 words.] Continue reading

NaBloPoMo ’06, NaNoWriMo ’06, Photos 2006

NaBloPoMo, NaNoWriMo, photo, photograph
November 5, 2006

See That Bear?

That’s Nellie. & that’s where I’ll be, all month. You can look forward to lots of short posts. Like this one. Today I went to the local NaNoWriMo write-in, and took photos. Now I am very, very tired. [2119 words in the past two days. I’m slowing down.] Continue reading

NaBloPoMo ’06, NaNoWriMo ’06

NaNoWriMo, photo, photograph
October 31, 2006

Happy Samhain

From Wikipedia: Samhain (IPA: [ˈsawənʲ]) is the word for November in the Irish language. The Scottish Gaelic spelling is Samhuinn. The same word was used for a month in the Celtic calendar, and in particular the first three nights of this month, the festival marking the ending of the summer season, and the end of… Continue reading

Blogging, NaBloPoMo ’06, NaNoWriMo ’06, Writing

Blogging, NaBloPoMo, NaNoWriMo, National Blog Posting Month, National Novel Writing Month, Writing
October 16, 2006

NaNoWriMo

Yes, folks, it’s approaching that time of year again. Don’t take that PARTICIPANT icon too seriously; I haven’t signed up. Yet. I did sign up two years ago, to no discernible effect, except a sudden and severe attack of writer’s block. Last year I didn’t even consider it. But this year I find myself thinking… Continue reading

NaNoWriMo ’06, Writing

NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month, Writing
April 24, 2006

NaPoWriMo ~ #20

I’ve added audio to the following Snapshot Poems: 12 April 0200605 April 0200622 March 0200616 March o2006 Continue reading

Audio Post, NaNoWriMo ’06, Snapshot Poems 2006

audio, NaPoWriMo, National Poetry Month, podcast, poem, poetry, Snapshot Poem

Ancestral (Artificial )Intelligence

I do not use AI to write. For me, writing is how I think, and I prefer to do it myself. If/when I post anything here that I suspect or know to be AI generated, I will tell you.

I have changed this from Artificial to Ancestral, after Abi Awomosu @ Substack. This medium was made with human history, human thought. All of it, bright and dark. It is ancestral.

Poems

Please do not assume that I am the speaker/ subject of my poems.

In these times of creative nonfiction and fictionalized memoirs, I think of the poem itself as true fiction: it is most likely not factual, but it must be true.

It is likely to be — it is best if it is — a truth I did not know before I wrote, and may not understand even then.

A poem is my way of discovering (dis-covering) what I feel; sometimes, what I think — but it is not necessarily biographical.

NaNoWriMo ’06

Halloween Detritus

See That Bear?

Happy Samhain

NaNoWriMo

NaPoWriMo ~ #20