Don't Tempt Fate: A Cautionary Tale

[britpoptarts]

A few weeks back, I responded to an email on MySpace from my friend Vernon, who is in The Julia Dream, an Atlanta band. I had just discovered (erroneously, as it turns out) that I had a schedule conflict and might not be able to attend the show here in Savannah tonight. They are playing at The Guitar Bar, by the way.

I joked about pretending to be

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[wonderbink]

How on earth do professional fiction writers cope? Much of what they dwell on is related to introducing interesting conflict to a story, and supposedly we all put large chunks of ourselves into what we write, even when it's not autobiography.

Do you know what's odd? In the first NaNo I completed, one of the plot points was a virtual world that the main character participated in.

Some nine months later, I discovered Second Life.

The second NaNo I completed involved magical drugs with reality-bending effects.

Three months after THAT, I tripped for the first time.

I won't get into what I put in my third completed NaNo, except to say that I made VERY SURE to put in a happy ending. ;)

One of the easiest ways I know to whittle down choices is to lean on my higher guidance. If you rely solely on five-sensory evidence, you'll wind up overwhelmed and frustrated, as you well know. But if you keep the channel open and check in with your intuition, your vibes, your angels, whatever you want to call it, you'll find yourself guided to the right choice more quickly. (Or, at the very least, you'll feel a lot better about the choice you make.)

The other part of it is to accept the choices that you HAVE made up to this point and let them be what they are, instead of paralyzing yourself with worry and regret. Brooding on the past (and I love you dearly, Milla, but you seem to do a LOT of that) ultimately poisons the present. Just let it all go and move upward.