Every weekend of October NaNoWriMo prep month, on Saturdays and Sundays, you get three short ideas of things to possibly write about when November 1st comes: a quotation, a picture, and a roll of the Story Cubes. By the time the big day is here and it’s time to write the first of those 50,000 words, you should be stocked up on potential!
I’ve saved my two favorites for the last weekend before the fun begins.
I wander through each chartered street,
—William Blake, from Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience
Near where the chartered Thames does flow,
A mark in every face I meet,
Marks of weakness, marks of woe.
In every cry of every man,
In every infant’s cry of fear,
In every voice, in every ban,
The mind-forged manacles I hear
There are some flaws in this that make it something I wouldn’t use to illustrate something. However, one of the things that is a huge flaw is something I like the best: her tutu magically melts and becomes a cloud she’s floating on top of. Where she goes from here is up to where you go from here.
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