It’s that time of year again. The ghosts and goblins and withces have collected enough candy to keep the dentists busy for a long time, the carved pumpkins are being thrown into the compost pile and it’s time for everyone to take off their masks….and write. Today is Nov. 1, the start of NaNoWriMo, the time when people all around the world write about 1667 words each day in the hopes of writing 50,000 words in a month and “finishing” a novel.
Please visit the The Writing Life in the Book Writing World and post your intentions for “NaNoWriMo2012 or How I’m Getting My Act Together and U can too!”
For my part, I intend to write every day on my novel in progress, “circa” and post in the BWW about my progress. I will not be writing 1667 each day but my intention to is to write every day and establish a habit. I will also be posting “prompts” every day for the month of November, and you are more than welcome to use them in any way that inspires you.
I hope you will all join me and strengthen our community of writers dedicated not only to the art of writing, but the craft of writing consistently.
Below are today’s prompts:
On Marilyn Monroe’s bookshelf, among others, rested a copy of Madame Bovary, A Farewell to Arms, and Joseph Conrad’s A Secret Agent.
THE LUTE WILL BEG
You need to become a pen
In the Sun´s hand.
We need for the earth to sing
Through our pores and eyes.
The body will again become restless
Until your soul paints all its beauty
Upon the sky.
Don´t tell me, dear ones,
That what Hafiz says is not true,
For when the heart tastes its glorious destiny
And you awake to our constant need
for your love
God´s lute will beg
For your hands.
— by Hafiz