Remember NaNoWri Mo? Back in November 2002 patrons of Soul Food spent a month writing a novel.

Well now you can work with the NaNoWri Mo team to edit your novels. They provide some interesting tools and tips to assist you in this important process.

The NotSoSoft Mayfly Project is interesting. It challenges you to sum up the last year of your life to make you re-examine your priorities, or to refocus on what has affected you. The catch is that you have to do it in 25 words. Of course, once you have done it you have words which will lead to more words.

Soul Food patrons who are familiar with my many blogs will know that I put this exercise in the Visual Journal Vault.

Nothing Trashy About This
We' ve all heard about or seen the works of artists who collect trash and sculpt it into interesting forms and meaningful shapes. Although "Trashlog" indeed also deals in found objects, it is very different. Nico Van Hoorn, from the Netherlands, has found a way to photograph bits of trash he finds along the roadside so that each and every piece looks like a simple, well-planned contemporary work of art. Each day, Mr. Van Hoorn picks up something that fits his parameters --paper, plastic or metal, never bigger than 10 x 15 cm, as flat as possible -- then photographs it and posts the resulting photo on his site. The archives go back to May of this year, and each day's offering is interesting and, in its own way, a thing of beauty. The meaning of all this is left to the viewer. Van Hoorn does not clutter his site with needless words. He is a collector, but a collector of a very different sort. Apparently he is looking for a more permanent home for his photo collection, but until he finds one he will continue to post his works on his website, and we will be the richer for it.

Gather some trash and weave it into your writing today.

Well Leslie Harpold, who by her own admission, loves to write, requested that readers send her digital images of almost anything. You will find the writing she has done using these images at Harpold.com.

I repeat! Gather some trash and weave it into your writing today.