novel 2013
nasrin khosrowshahi
2013
1. Once again, once again. Ah to hammer fifty thousand words in less than thirty days, yep, it is once more November. This is national novel writing month, a writing extravaganza that started in Berkeley some twenty years ago, a writingish conglomerate that now spans all across five continents. Author here ponders, if she described the nanowrimo phenomenon accurately, she watches the woman in brown and black and olive sprint up the stairs, she feels the dullness of her writingish endeavour, she listens in to the constant talk-a-talk of the study group near the entrance of the college library, she can see the boredom of the librarians, the ones that are here for ages, she types away types away, every day at least 1300 words, but more 3000, she will be a winner at the end of the month, her wordcount will make it should make it. The red chairs near the window, ah the writing the writing. The roar of the computer, it is as if the machine screams at her. She types she writes. Her words her words. Slight poetry, slight novelling. Where does fiction start where does it end, who categorizes writing? We have 195 words here, ah, a lot more to go, a lot a lot. Vancouver as grey as always, she ponders, nobody will publish this, you cannot dis any given region if you want to make it in lit land. You have to be utterly nice and utterly polite, do not mess with powers that are stronger than you. That yield more power than what the individual can possibly yield. Philosophical waxing, otherwise called non-fiction. She ponders, she is not articulate enough for non-fiction, nope, this is definitely a novel. A non-novel. A semiautographical account, a logbook of a lowly writer. She looks around, seems, not everybody is starting up her great international novel, the woman in black who drives the chairs around and looks to her back, she has other things on her mind than penning the nextest masterpiece, so does the young woman at the other chair, who is wearing a black coat with a reddish lining. She 1