Writing. I was just going to get back to my novel, when tragedy struck. Really. That is not a line from a novel, but maybe it should be.
I'm leaving the city where my novel is set, so I am soaking up a lot of ambience and character from the streets, hills, people and places... I hope to capture it faithfully. And make up the rest seamlessly.
I'm getting a laptop and thus will have the opportunity to "write anywhere." Right. We'll see.
So, yes, my plan is to do a mini-NaNo in July. It will be NaNoRevMo. National Novel Revising Month, though I still have about 30 or 40% to add to the novel to make it coherent. And July because I hope to be unpacked at my new house, settling in but not yet distracted by soccer, karate, etc. My work year cranks up hard in October, so I need to be done with Parked in Tucson by then. Done enough to show, anyway.
If you're reading this, hope you're having fun and/or being productive and all.
IN my last post, which was far too long ago, I mentioned a Petri dish wherein some new wonderful good thing was growing.
I can say with gladness and gratitude that it indeed has grown and is real.
Here's the thing:
* I am moving to Dallas, Texas with my son.
* We will live in my brother's house, which he was going to sell but didn't get around to it in his last days.
* I secured permission to telecommute with my current job, so I don't have to quit and look for a new one.
* I have plans to homeschool said son at least for the summer, if not for all of sixth grade and possibly seventh, depending on my success.
All the shoes that needed to drop in order for this to happen dropped with minimum effort, but never at the moment I thought they would. I prepped and sold my current house (closing on June 5), I took care of some annoying credit issues to secure a new loan, and I moved my job description more toward what I have been doing for free all these years. There are some other things that I would like to see happen, but now that I have gotten the hang of the Cosmic Supply Company, I'm just not going to push it. I placed my order, and I know it will be filled.
The only real "problems" now are deciding if I take with us or sell the piano and my parents' bedroom set. The former has massive sentimental value and potential for future musical endeavors; the latter is convenient to have but not really my style, very bulky to move and somewhat redundant. If it weren't for the high cost of moving stuff across country, I might keep it and decide what to do. But then again, I wonder if it's worth something to someone and I could put it on craig's list to help defray the cost of moving?
In any event, the forecast for more creativity and more time to write is very very sunny.
