Lets talk about something else, for once.

I'm driven creatively by music. I love, love to make playlists and just absorb all the emotion from the songs.

Like I said in the last post, there are other stories I can write. And yesterday my brain started cranking on one.

When I was probably 12 or 13 I started staying up late and watching Star Trek. I was in love with it. I taped every episode I could find on tv and eventually ended up with over a dozen video tapes full of hours of the Original series.

It just lit my brain on fire! I know the special effects were horrible. Some the storylines were terrible. William Shatner certainly has been made fun of for years for his acting style.

But there were ideas in the show that stretched my brain from its usual daydreams to something entirley different.

Of course most of my stories are romance driven. Sad, but true. And I...may have begun to write what I now realize was Star Trek fan-fiction.

I'll wait until you're done laughing.

Ok?

Good.

Anyway. As I got older, the story was filed away in my head in favor of things like a social life, then college, marriage, etc.

When the Lord of the Rings movies came out- I was pregnant with my first child and could care less. I never read those books, and I really wasn't interested in the movies. But when Matt brought Fellowship of the Ring home- I was totally hooked.

I couldn't believe I hadn't read these! So, I immediatly went out, bought the books and tore through them.

Now my mind stirred up an idea from my past...my story! The one...the Star Trek thing...what if it wasn't Star Trek? What if I took this character I'd thought up and NOT injected her into Gene Rodenberry's series, and rather put her on her in her own world?

This was my first NaNoWriMo novel. I never was able to title it, and after a few years of re-reading it, I see how much weakness is in it. I've put it aside in favor of Blood Freckles, this current story you're all sick of hearing about.

Theres this Muse song- Knights of Cydonia? It's freaking awesome. And theres something about it that just conjures up images. Images of this other story! Like it's the theme song! I keep playing it.

I saw a special on the history channel last night that seemed oddly ironic- it was about what would happen to the earth if humans just dissappeared. How the animals would change and adapt, what would happen to man made structures, etc.

Now I'm stoked. I know what to do and where to start researching. I'm not sure if it'd be Sci Fi or Fantasy, but I have two characters and an idea I love.

(after I re-write this other story, of course...)