Day Two’s Perseverant Indolence

For today’s images I’m trying to capture the indolence in perseverance and the perseverance in indolence. To me both abstract nouns have to do with repetition, but one is active and one is inactive, one requires expending energy, and the other preserving energy. It would be fun to cut out a sloth (the animal) filter—I don’t have one of those yet—but I don’t think that will help me find the indolence in persistence. I took my circle with arrows filters out to meet the Halloween lights this morning.

Today’s photoshoot was super-fun. Using movement with my outdoor light display produced great effects. And I enjoyed trying out some transparencies as well.

2023 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 2

Today’s prompt is to write a childhood object poem.

Perseverance and Indolence

You push and push
on the red plastic circle
The corkscrewed metal post resists
and the point slips
The bicone rolls away on its center seem
You fetch and balance
and push even harder
This time it gives
The turning begins
and you push
and it springs back
and the bicone turns faster
and you push
and it springs back
and it whirs into a tone
and you push and push
and it spins and spins
and the tone
becomes a melody
and now you’ve had enough
You leave it fallen
on its side, rolling
in its small circle
until it tires

How did your first day go? The NaNoWrMo Youtube Write-ins inspired me to start several scenes. It always surprises me how write-ins actually work to get me to write. I wrote over 2,000 words on my new novel yesterday.

I set up two different Scrivener files: One on my laptop using Derek Murphy’s 24-Chapter Novel Writing Template, and one on my no-internet-access desktop computer using my own template based on the Save the Cat Beatsheet. When I finished a write-in, I copied my words into my Scrivener files and wrote quick scene summaries. It was a very productive first day.

That’s why I’m glad the Global Write-in Crawl started this morning right when I woke up. I can jump in and join write-ins whenever I have time over the next few days.

The announcement on the NaNoWriMo site for the Global Write-in Crawl is confusing and mistaken. The Virtual Train Ride on Discord started with its first stop at 5AM (Pacific Time) this morning. Each stop is two hours of writing and chatting and then there’s an hour break. So hop on the train at any time for sprints, prompts, and writing comradery at any time: Global Write-in Crawl (GWIC) Discord.

Happy Noveling Everyone!