There’s Something About Fall – Autumn and Writing

There’s something about fall that makes me want to write. Autumn and writing just go together. Just as the leaves start to turn golden, when I can smell the changing weather when walking to the bus stop for work, I just want to write. I’m not entirely sure what it is.

Part of it, though, has to be that I have been conditioned for years and years with the “back to school” routine. Summer starts to cool down and not its time to get some shiny new stationery, brand new notebooks, and start learning, reading, growing.

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It’s also my usual convention season. It starts a little early with When Words Collide, but then there is Sirens in October over in Denver. Usually I also go to World Fantasy Convention which I sadly cannot make this year. That gets me revved up for all sorts of writing, dreaming, story ideas, and intense conversations about themes of fantastic writing especially how it deals with diverse populations. Just thinking about conferences coming up I get the itch to do *more*.

Already this fall I have:

Written a shit-tonne of words at a write-a-thon that may actually be useable.
Done two epic plotting sessions for the Crash and Burn comic to get the storyline full and ready to write faster.
Hinted at starting back into a collaboration writing project novel.
Moved forward with the plot for the draft challenge I have with Elisa–including working through a stumbling block and being open to changing the structure of the book
Gotten the back-to-school flu/cough/half-death of the sinuses. It’s part of the whole process, I think.

Do you have a favourite season for productivity?

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