Yesterday evening I came back from a long weekend at the new old house. The rhythm is different there, waking with the light and doing what amounts to field work while the light lasts. There isn’t internet or a wifi connection, the radio is dodgy, and the electrics don’t extend to reading lamps, so it’s firelight and candles until bedtime. No scribbling on the computer, but the thoughts still come and the best ones linger after I get home.
A dew-damp morning,
birdsong colours the silence,
I hear a leaf fall.
It sounds very peaceful. I hope you enjoy it.
(It would probably drive me crazy after a few days. ) 🙂
It drives us crazy having to come back to town 🙂
I shall turn it to tanrenga…tanka to your haiku…it is another japanese form where two poets come together to form a verse ..if you permit Jane ..
I’d be honoured, Sri 🙂
Thanks Jane
I noticed today that I’d somehow stopped following your blog. Not sure how it happened but i did wonder where you’d dissapeared to…
WP dumps followers from time to time. There are loads of blogs I don’t get notifications from any more. Nice to see you’ve not dropped off the face of the planet 🙂
That’s annoying cause it’d be hard to know if a less frequently posting blogger is still being followed or not…
I follow a lot of blogs and rely on the email notifications. If I scroll through the reader I could spend a whole day catching up!
I have zero email notification and rely just on reader. I get overwhelmed with email flooding.
It’s the discipline of scrolling through the reader that I lack, but it’s true that the quantity of emails every day to read is pretty daunting.
How’re you going with nanowrimo?
I started with 42k words and I’m at 45k now. That’s quite good going for me. I’m hoping it will give me enough motivation to keep at it. Once I really get into the story it should get easier.
so are you editing the original 42k or adding to it? Maintaining momentum is the key I think. I have surprised myself with sticking to it and despite the feelign I am writing shit, not going back and tinkling with it. It is the end of Day 4 here and I have 6907 total : ) Looking forward to 3 days off work next week (while my toddler is in daycare) to give me the feeling (and discipline) of being a full time writer 🙂
Blimey! That’s good going! I can’t write like that. I get niggling doubts a paragraph later and go back and fiddle. At the moment I’m still going through the original text and adding to it as I get back into the story. This is the easy part. When I get to where I left of it’s going to be harder.
Thanks Jane. I guess over the years in my writing courses and words of wisdom I’ve read by writer types- its best not to edit on the first draft but just plough through- that might not be everyone’s cup of tea, but I know that I can get caught up in detail and trying to get something perfect and could easily still be at 200 words if I wanted to get it right. I hope the hard part turns out to not be so hard after all, once you get there. 🙂
p.s. now on 9021 words. yay! just trying not to think about the day(s) where I go back to edit haha
The editing is the best bit! It’s getting to that finishing line I find hard. That’s why I like to fiddle around with the story as things occur to me. It makes the later stages more interesting.
Well then I’m saving the best bit for December and beyond 🙂
Savour it 🙂
thanks 🙂
Thanks, yes I’m still bound to this planet by gravity.
A time to think and a time to just be are essential to happiness.
Exactly 🙂
Done Jane…here’s the link
https://srisudhak.wordpress.com/2016/11/01/autumn-song/