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10 days.
wondering how everyone is doing who's undertaken this or thought about it.
my update: i have the bones of an interesting piece and i think---i think----i have a structure that's starting to take shape.
what i know is that i'm working a set of themes---forgetting/memory & permutations of the two---and that there are recurring images most of which seem linked to the change of season.
i have a character who appears to be ocd and who is, as best i can tell, stuck inside the front door of his apartment building unable to go outside because he's sure that if he leaves the building will burn down but that if he goes upstairs to check he'll just have to start his morning all over again, a loop that will end him up forgetting again whether he checked or not and so he'll just be unable to leave. maybe it's always been like that. i don't see quite how to save him from himself.
there are drifting other figures, geometrical problems, different people inhabiting he and she---none of them have names---they feel like different people, but it's hard to say whether that's the case for a reader.
and the past few days have turned more toward reprocessing memories, particular about radio.
my new idea is that the whole series is a kind of stamp collection.
i think there's alot that could be done with this.
interesting meta-games...
o yeah, my word count is embarrassingly small. but the pieces are tight. so there's a trade-off. i just am not gonna win the nanowrimo prize.
so how are you faring?
and any ideas about whether or how this space could help things along?
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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