So now that I’ve managed to somehow survive faire weekend (for those of you who don’t know what the hell I’m talking about, that would be the Grand Valley State University Renaissance Festival, of which I’ve been a member as either a student or alumni or both for 20 years now), I have finally come to the shocking realization that it is, in fact, October.
Not only is it October, it’s basically a week into October and I’m still trying to come to grips with that.
My post-faire world tends to be a lot of re-centering and resetting of my life and activities and planning for the last few months of the year–for midterms, for final exams, for NaNoWriMo, traveling, the holidays, and all those sorts of fun things.
The biggest question looming for me right now beyond general academic questions is what I’m going to end up working on for NaNoWriMo this year, which is usually the October question I’m facing. I’m now a week behind on prep for it, which isn’t the end of the world. I have a feeling I know what I’m going to end up at least trying to work on, but we’ll have to see if anything else creeps into my brain before November 1 hits. As of right now, it’s feeling like I might start a draft of Come What May, one of the UNSETIC Files that focuses on someone in the next generation after characters like Tim and Brigid and Kate and AJ and Jim and all the rest–while still making space for their elders to at least pop in and out of the narrative. But we’ll see on that, because depending on whether I actually manage to finish Lost and Found this month, I might end up trying to muddle my way through a rewrite of Pawns, since that will require a total rewrite based on the events of…well. Other projects. Time, of course, will tell–as it always does.
Stay tuned for more updates as they become available.
