Nanowrimo : Novel Update : Source Material

I’m at 45,007 words today. Close enough to finish tomorrow.

The title to my novel is : Wounded Cast Down

Here’s a couple of poems by Wallace Stevens used as inspiration:

The Snow Man

One must have a mind of winter
To regard the frost and the boughs
Of the pine-trees crusted with snow;

And have been cold a long time
To behold the junipers shagged with ice,
The spruces rough in the distant glitter

Of the January sun; and not to think
Of any misery in the sound of the wind,
In the sound of a few leaves,

Which is the sound of the land
Full of the same wind
That is blowing in the same bare place

For the listener, who listens in the snow,
And, nothing himself, beholds
Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.

The Wind Shifts

This is how the wind shifts:
Like the thoughts of an old human,
Who still thinks eagerly
And despairingly.
The wind shifts like this:
Like a human without illusions,
Who still feels irrational things within her.
The wind shifts like this:
Like humans approaching proudly,
Like humans approaching angrily.
This is how the wind shifts:
Like a human, heavy and heavy,
Who does not care.

First Writer’s Block : NaNoWriMo

I couldn’t remember the word “easel”. All I could think of was “steeple” and “gurney”. I phoned home and asked my wife.

National Novel Writing Month

NaNoWriMo begins on all Saints Day. Here are the fools:

• myself
• Zach
• Shelby
• Rachel
• Hannah
• James
• Sarah
• Shonda
• Jon
• Josh
• Brendan
• Stevenson
• Guido

And this is what we will look like all month long: