literary harvest
this is the season of abundance and sharing,
of shunning the fear of lack, striving, or future want.
indulge in the superfluity of words and ideas,
in the fulfilment of earthly as well as of heavenly desires.
abjure nostalgia and embrace the death of the old
as giving way to the new life.
- Pick a new persona & pen name.
- Release something into the public domain.
- Create your own chrestomathy.
- Harvest your commonplace book / zettelkasten for allusions.
- Pool your annotation screenshots into a new folder.
- Outline a story you’ll never write.
- Play a solo RPG session.
- Memorise and record yourself reading your own writings.
- Write a reader’s guide to your oeuvre.
- Write a writer’s guide to your oeuvre.
- Draw a family tree of your literary influences.
- Curate a seasonal palette of fountain pen inks.
- Shower your fans with your presence.
- Treat yourself to some fancy stationery, or a new keyboard.
- Blow away your to-do lists.
- Evoke ease & plenty in all, with your words alone.
- Reap the riches of your own work.
- Make a pile of blank notebooks.
- Make a pile of full notebooks.
- Weed out unfruitful or overripe pursuits.
- Bask in the warm glow of authors who have paved the way for you.
- Listen in to the world.
- Gather up scattered or stalled projects into a tempting still life.
- Feast on something stylistically succulent.
- Draw from the prolific treasury of new (or dead) languages.
- 10x every item on your dream list.
- Host a real or imaginary author mastermind.
- Bind your own vade mecum or anthology.
- Appreciate all you do with no thought of return.
- Read what you feel fortunate to be able to enjoy.
- Turn your desk into a sacred, seasonal space.
- Choose a wealthy patron, and act one in turn.
- Rustle up a “dream author” costume.
- Burn old notes.
- Learn botanical or dialect terms to describe your favourite tree.
- Set up Google Scholar alerts for your favourite authors.
- Offer up a libation or toast to your chosen literary deity.
- Light up more spaces.
- Write copiously of the blessings you bring to the world.
- Make it up.
☞ You can pick up a PDF of this list in the Coterie.
