What's with today, today?

I kind of have a love of weddings... some might call it an obsession, I call it an interest? I love to read the wedding of the week in the SMH, but that's been unreliable lately. Thankfully, Georgia has recommended me a wedding blog to give me wedding eye-candy through the week. I've just started reading it, and it's gorgeous, so if you're interested: Once Wed: http://www.oncewed.com

"Free trip to Blue Mountains with lunch and dinner $99 ($59 without food) For $99 you get morning tea, lunch and a four course dinner and a free trip to the blue mountains!" - Sign at Indian restaurant in Surry Hills. Doesn't sound all that free to me... "You know why? That card's expired- 05/11. Oh, is that the 11th year or the 11th month?" - Overheard "Write poetry on property" - Graffiti on Vintage Cellars A sandy coastline- Ivan Shishkin Hot Springs of the Yellowstone- Thomas Moran The trunks in the grass- Vincent van Gogh - Paintings "who are you, little i (five or six years old) peering from some high window, at the gold of november sunset (and feeling: that if day has to become night this is a beautiful way) -who are you little i, e.e. cummings "Totally unfunded blackspot" - Sign on Princes Highway "Ye shall find refreshment, thy whose bus is without conditioned air" - Nestea ad, emphasis mine "Pe...

"He wants me to elope with him to South America... Maybe Central America..." - Overheard on a bus "As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another" - Proverbs 27:17 "Above all, what interested me was the inarticulateness of grief, that these are two writers who are supposed to be the best at articulating anything in our society who can't articulate to each other... I don't think anyone can articulate it. It's hard to be tangible with your heart." - Maria Theodotis? (handwriting illegible) on the play 'Construction of the Human Heart' SMH 28.09.07 "Bingie Bingie is one of the best places to be" "Rachel, where are you? Met Sunday afternoon on the train. Call Steve on -" - Poster outside Stanmore station "I glide in on moonlit air gaze over dew-jeweled grass to the glass-still sea. All beauty lies within the scope of my eyes. The play of light in limpid pools where dark/light intersect create new patterns ...

I haven't posted anything so long that it's starting to get daunting, so will just have to write and get over it. While I am fairly sure that most people would regard this as a good technique for getting over writers block, I am generally not able to manage it. Blogs are less daunting than many other forms of writing I guess. For instance, November is 'NaNoWriMo' or 'National Novel Writing Month' (the 'national' is a misnomer, it's a global, internet thing originally I believe). Now there's a daunting project- writing a novel in a month. I would be keen to do this, but I am just overall daunted at the prospect. I'm just a chicken, basically. But I have been thinking about my latent novel idea (c'mon, everyone's got one, right?) and wondering what to do with it. I've thought about rejigging the narrative structure to make it easier to tackle, which seem right, but there are a few obstacles I keep running up against: My idea for th...