And again the Muse speaks . . .

I've had yet another idea for a short story occur to me, just recently.


At least I'm hoping it's a short story. I'm still working on The Sorcerer's Daughter and I don't know if my poor old, abused subconscious has enough RAM to handle two works of that length at the same time.


This one, unlike the previous one I mentioned a couple weeks ago, is science fiction, which is something I'm much more comfortable with. It actually started with an idea I had a long time ago, something that was just a basic idea with no details that I hadn't been able to develop.


Well, it's developing now. I've got some context, a setting, a basic story, even an idea for an ending.


Still, I need to let it sit just a bit longer. It's not quite ready for me to start writing.


That's what happened to the previous thing I mentioned here the other day--it wasn't quite ready and I started on it anyway. What I've written on that story isn't bad, and I'll return to it one day, but my enthusiasm for that little project has sort of faded.


Anyway, that's what I'll be thinking about over this holiday--developing this story idea into an actual story.


Where am I on The Sorcerer's Daughter? Still waiting on notes from my first readers right now. I'm about to begin rereading it, after staying away from it for over a month. A few things have occurred to me in the interim, a few enhancements for the basic story, and I'm hoping since it's been a while since I've read it that I'll approach it with fresh eyes now. I've got a week off from work coming up and that's going to be one of the things I'm going to work on during that time.


I do have a title for this new short story, not that it'll tell you all that much. I'm calling it "Unus."


The rest of the plan for my own holiday? I got some lovely Chinese takeout in the fridge for lunch. There is a full slate of football--both professional and college--coming up, and, unlike previous Thanksgiving NFL games, the ones happening today actually have playoff ramifications


Football. Writing, Food. As good as it gets.