Contradictory Abstract Nouns (Photography Challenge)
Today I’m looking at finding the failure in success and the success in failure.
It is finally here, the final day of November: the last day of NaNoWriMo; the last day of prompts for the NovPAD challenge; and the last day of this extended study of the big five abstract nouns and their contradictory counterparts. This month has been huge for me in terms of creation, invention, and discovery.
I now have yet another novel draft, and thirty new poems, and a ton of new images, all successful failures and failed successes. Luckily, they don’t end there. November succeeded as a month of creation. Now it’s time to spend as much time in review, and to find the failures, examine them and learn from them; to sort through and find what I still like after letting time pass, and see why I think it succeeded and how to use that successes to transform the failures. I plan to let the novel completely rest, while I focus on the poems and images in December.
November PAD Chapbook Challenge
The last prompt for this challenge is a title prompt “And (blank).”
And Success Will Follow
The undertaking is a complete fiasco
The shapes are blurry,
the colors are dull
so step over the line again
The performance is a total flop
the notes are wrong
the movements sloppy
so square off against butterflies once more
The operation is an absolute loss
alarms are sounding
footsteps approaching
so laugh in the face of fear anew
The design is a full-scale bust
the pieces don’t fit
the vision is not birthed
so muster the courage afresh
The quest is a downright defeat
the return is without elixir
the dragon still hoards the treasure
so cross that bridge over and over
NaNoWriMo
Today I will write until this draft is finished, no matter how many words it takes, even if I have to write through the night, I will get to “The End.” I’m very excited. I’m so close. I won’t let myself down.
The draft is a complete mess. I know most of it is garbage, but the whole story is there. I have used the process of drafting to get to know some really interesting characters, create a small town world, and create and resolve conflicts. In this way, this NaNoWriMo has been a complete success. The words flowed, and I wrote more in a month than I ever have before. But what I really succeeded in doing was creating more work for myself.
I’ll be back tomorrow to talk about my plans for the dwindling days of this year and what to expect in December, but then I’ll be taking a break, at least for the weekend.
Experience Writing 
I like the way you break down NaNoWriMo. I think that every year my attempt is a successful failure. I put the story away for a long time before I take it out to edit.
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