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NaNoWriMo 2020

November 6, 2020

NaNoWriMo Update

As of today, 06 November 2020, I have written 10,033 words. I'm on schedule for "Just Write". In other news, we are still pretending to not know who our next president will be. //embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js Continue reading

Art Journal, NaNoWriMo 2020
November 3, 2020

NaNoWriMo 2020

What else is there to do in November during a pandemic? Actually, I'm not attempting a novel, but I am attempting 50,000 words. I've done this before. I have two very bad novels, one maybe-memoirish something, and a few odd paragraphs. This time, sort-of-maybe-memoir-bits again. Or, just a series of Morning Pages. We shall see.… Continue reading

NaNoWriMo 2020, Writing

DISCLAIMERS:

Artificial Intelligence

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

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 2020

NaNoWriMo Update

NaNoWriMo 2020