“What is the most resilient parasite? Bacteria? A virus? An intestinal worm? An idea. Resilient… highly contagious. Once an idea has taken hold of the brain it’s almost impossible to eradicate.” -Cobb, from Inception
So, a few weeks ago I listened to a piece of music, trying my normal “get an idea from a soundtrack and write a flash fiction” shtick. I envisioned a neat set-up, but I had no plot. So I let it simmer.
Yesterday, a plot occurred to me. Last night, I tried my hand at a rough draft. Do you know what the story told me? 1000 words isn’t long enough.
Sigh.
And as I sat pondering what the story needed to be, my old friend Fitzwilliam Fitzwallace, whose last adventure was upon The Isle of Gold, poked his head in, wondering whether he might be of assistance.
And then I remembered after October, there’s this month called November and this thing called National Novel Writing Month.
I bet the story wouldn’t break 20,000 words, but a quick write might be fun.
We’ll see. The idea might stick around.
DO IT! DO IT!