People! SEPTEMBER IS NEXT WEEK! Do you know what that means? It means autumn is right. around. the corner. I am very excited about this. I am veryveryvery excited about this. Not only is it my most favorite season, it’s the time of year when I do my absolute best writing, and when it’s the easiest for me to write.
I love summer, don’t get me wrong. I actually don’t tolerate the cold very well (and yes, I realize that makes it ironic that autumn, when it finally cools off, is my favored time of year.) I love the heat and light and green lush humidity of an Indiana summer. But it’s also a thick, lazy sort of time. I have trouble focusing on getting the words onto the page. It’s like my story’s on its own personal beach vacation, too busy grilling burgers and splashing in the surf to get written.
I think that’s actually a good thing – I think that’s when the ideas and stories get fat. My imagination gets all sorts of food from summertime. I just can’t *access* it. It’s like watching the apples grow – you can see them there, on the tree, but trying to eat them before they’re ready’s just going to give you a stomach ache.
But then fall arrives. And the leaves change and the air gets that really clear, light-filled quality that comes with the sudden absence of humidity. There’s a sense of drawing in, of settling down. School starts. Night comes sooner. And all at once, the stories and ideas and words that were hidden behind the piles of too-abundant tomatoes and the nappish torpor of July afternoons? They’re READY. They start falling like those apples I mentioned before. As fast as I can write, they’re just *there*.
It’s happened enough times over enough years that now, come the start of September, my mouth is absolutely watering for those few easy months before winter sets in. And it’s ALMOST HERE. My sweaters and the fireplace and my writing fingers are at the ready.
I can see the stories packing up their coolers and shaking the sand out of their beach towels from here, and I can hardly wait.
I hear you on that Christine! It’s my favorite time of the year as well. I can’t get enough of fall. Best time to be out, to grab hot chocolate or chili and have a nice warm meal before winter hits and the soup pops out.
And you are so INCREDIBLY right that it is when the stories fall down off the tree. It’s my best time for that as well. I wonder if that is why they put National Novel Writing Month in November….hmmmm.
Good luck in your future writing though. I am reading Claire de Lune and am loving it. It’s so refreshing from the last book I read (and I won’t say who wrote it because they had a great idea, I just didn’t like the character or how the story went). I’ll let you know when I post my review on The Book Bundle (http://thebookbundle.blogspot.com).
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