In The Great Room
It is a mild and sunny Monday afternoon and I am happy and healthy here in New York City.
At the moment I’m working on my NaNoWriMo trying to increase a word count that currently sits at just past 45,000 words. I gotta get 5,000 more written by Friday to make it past the goal line.
I think I can I think I can.
In order to inspire myself, I’m sitting in the great room at the New York City Public library tapping away at the keys to my MacBook.
It really is a great room:
Copyright 2010, Karen Fayeth. Taken with an iPhone5 using the onboard app and the panorama function
Downstairs there is a free exhibition of some artifacts from Charles Dickens. Among these treasures is the late Mr. Dickens pen and inkwell. Now that really is inspiring.
Copyright 2012, Karen Fayeth. Taken with an iPhone5 and the Camera+ app.
Here I lament tapping away at the keys, trying to make the words accumulate into something good while our man Charles scribbled them all out longhand, dipping pen into ink every so often.
I suppose one might be a bit more thoughtful about the words if one had to write them out one by one in pen and ink, eh?
For me, I can’t imagine going back to even writing on a typewriter. I remember having to type up papers for school on my mom’s old manual typewriter and being so head bangingly frustrated at having to type each page perfectly with no mistakes. Argh!
No, I’ll take my beat up old MacBook, words slopping out from the edges of my Word document like water in an overfilled and somewhat leaky bucket.
I can veritably shower in the words here as they fly free and easy from my fingertips.
Then again, he was Dickens. I have yet to fully be Karen Fayeth.
Back to tip tapping away in the great room.
Many words and many miles yet to go….
