can’t see the forest

As November draws to a close, they are legion whom languish lovingly in the final throes of the great scramble for 50k words. Because winning isn’t everything in National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo)—it’s the only thing.

I am not among them thissssss time, but perhaps you are, and if so (or even if not) you should check out this helpful little William S. Burroughs-inspired website. With more literary gadgets and gizmos than James Joyce’s toolchest, you can cyberpimp your novel, short story, and other sundry ramblings with that special flair only a computer randomizer could provide.

Don’t talk to me about cyberpunk. Deconstruction—aye, there’s the rub! Cut ‘em up and move ‘em out! Sentences, that is. Just sentences. With only eight days left to the finish line, there’s simply no more time to murder your darlings by the paragraph.

This is the the creative writer’s wet dream as much as ’tis the blackest, harshest nightmare of the longsuffering copyeditor. Enjoy! Forever. And ever. And ever.

Slowly paint the burning biscuits just across the starlit pond.