back-pedaling

that is me today. november begins writing month. have ideas popped into my head for the novel? no. criticisms about the ideas and characters already in mind have come up of course. And twenty reasons why NOT to go ahead with novel month. (I'm listening to a forties station "there is no business liike show business") okay the show must go on. i'll show up at rediscovered bookstore at 10 PM for the party to kick off novel month. and dive in with my fingers tapping. no plot yet.

in a way deciding to have a "quantum year" is like a long writing project. you can't just say "I'm going to have a quantum year" and then sit on your hands. all the same puzzle pieces of life will arrange themselves as they ever have. with indrmental changes sifting through. a quantum experience is a verb experience. so it is a year of picking up the pen so to speak. taking a walk tuesday night instead of turning on "so you think you can dance." going outside the usual edges. paying attention is crucial as well. look to see the interlocking pieces and find a way to pry them apart. the characters in the novel can do things that i cannot or am not doing.