Liquidators, sevenling

The plan was to write a sevenling, which is a seven-line poem structured in tercets and containing the element of three. Yet, the three-line nature of tercet and the three-someness induced me to make it contain three tercets, so it went out of form. For the Poetic form challenge I edited it, leaving out the second tercet. Here, however, I publish it in its entirety.

The liquidators at Chernobyl,

reservists, workers, coal-miners –

some eight hundred thousand lives

Wasted – some died on site,

some died within a month

and others lingered on, oh – so on,

Went there for their children

who could live on, and play, and mourn

without them even

While we just profited by it.

(а ние просто се възползвахме) where you will read the Bulgarian poem, which is not a sevenling.

My Word Wizard Prompt of 6th Dec.

Yet another “completion” prompt from My Word Wizard of Twitter

On winter’s darkest days we

dream of summer haze

but not forgetting what it takes

to blow the snow away –

Time!

NaNoWriMo Week 1

The total shows 14202 words in all.

That’s what I’m very happy about. What worries me is that my plot is not going well. My characters are supposed to ACT, but all they do is TALK. They tarry too much and never seem to be ready for action. So far I have covered one week of their life and maybe until now I had to reach at least one third of my planned time-span for the whole novel.

The other worry I have is that even though I tend to write much better in English, than I do in Bulgarian, somehow this time English evades me. Witty lines come to me in Bulgarian and I have trouble fitting them in the English text. Translating would be absurd right now, as all have to fret about is growing the wordcount.

Anyway, I learn a lot as I go. Even before starting I learned how important it was to invent your set of characters and to sketch some of the plot ahead.

as to the result, we’ll see.

Week One is a total success!