November Is for Writing!

November is shaping up to be a very busy month here in the Library! All three Owlets and I are participating in Nanowrimo. Keyboards are tapping all over the house! My novel, tentatively titled The Naga Project, is a middle grade fantasy.

In addition, I've decided to participate in PiBoIdMo, so I'll be generating a picture book idea every day. I think this is such a fun idea! Plus, it will give me new projects to focus on when I hit the post-Nano blues on December 1.

 

I was so inspired this morning that I even wrote a poem for the Monday Poetry Stretch at The Miss Rumphius Effect. This week's challenge was to write a poem about what isn't there, illuminating the subject through the negative. Here's my effort:

Stepmother

No poisoned apples or magic mirrors
No waiting for night in a woodcutter’s cottage clutching the edge of the forest
No spells, no curses, no magic wands
No potions that twist brothers into birds; no arms growing feathered in the morning sun
No lentils to sort, no floors to scrub, no hunting for strawberries in the snow
No ugly, one-eyed daughter sleeping, selfish, in your upstairs room
No royal huntsmen serving your heart for my dinner

No, I’m not your real mother, flying through the window to shower you with gowns like the sun.

But that doesn’t make me the witch.

I haven't written any poetry since high school (as I'm sure you can tell), but I plan to make the Poetry Stretch a Monday tradition.

I'm also going to be writing at least one picture book during November.