NaBloPoMo, NaNoWriMo

My NaBloPoMo post for today is at Abide: Memory..., an excerpt from my NaNoWriMo project.

And a second guest post is up at Blogging Blog: Blogs as a medium for online literary magazines: lessons from qarrtsiluni, by Dave Bonta. This excellent essay explores the potential of both online literary magazines and blogging.

Thank you so much, Dave, and all the others who will soon be making star appearances at Blogging Blog.

 

A friend, who has seen a bit of what I'm doing, writes that she never thought of doing a memoir this way; that she thought one had to begin at the beginning and write straight through.

But that's not how memory works, is it? When one smells apples, and remembers a childhood tree, one needn't go back to the first memory, and roll forward to the tree; the tree just appears, dropping its ripe apples on the ground.

A memoir is not a life, it's a memory. A faulty, scattered, and timeless memory. One picks up the apple that is closest, or most enticing; not the first that fell from the tree.

As of last night, I was at 17,382 words.

Comments

[EelKat]

I'm on NaNoWriMo too... I'm EelKat over there too.