Living the Fictional Dream

Fall has come to Texas. Today, the wind is blowing briskly through the streets of downtown, and I’d much rather be outside than stuck in my small office. Most days, I don’t mind not having a window — in the pecking order, I’m lucky enough to have an office at all, window or no window — but today, I wish I had one so I could watch the trees dancing.

It feels as if the fall breezes are bringing me ideas from muses that have been on vacation for most of September. I suddenly had an idea for a novel that I could write during NaNo… a novel set in my urban fantasy world (the same one as my story, “Alpha,” up at Electric Spec, and my story “Packless,” which is currently making the rounds).

I’d been planning to use NaNo for rather hefty revision (think total rewrite) of one of my two novels-in-progress, but now this new idea tempts me into new territories. I have a few weeks left before November first. Perhaps I will tinker with an outline and see what happens.

I also had a couple of ideas for short stories come in with the wind. Now I just need time to sit down and write them. The weeks (and weekends!) have been so busy lately. I’m no longer in school and I don’t have children, so I’m not dealing with the school there, either, but it still seems as if the gearing up of a new semester always affects my schedule. And, it’s also the dreaded busy season at work, so there is much to do.

But, perhaps, soon I will find time to sit down and put these breezy musings to paper (or to Word document, more accurately). It wouldn’t do to waste fall’s gifts!