I’ve been digging through my imagination for an idea for the first peice I am writing for Seton Hill. In order to get us familiar with the process, we are submitting a short work (I think 5 pages) to the critique group before we meet in June. I’m assuming that I am supposed to come up with something in the urban fantasy vein, since that is my focus, but another part of me wants to lean heavily on my creative non-fiction comfort zone. Sometimes, I’m such a coward.

What are my ideas? I shall share

• Woman/man is mad - off their rocker - missing marbles - and other fun cliches. In order to cope with past/some fucked up experience, they go within themselves, find a world full of magic and mayhem, and need to unwind their madness with their journey. — thought about commenting on the lack of psychological help for the mentally ill. Alternately, I saw man on Shine and Bumby, just across from Publix. He swung a fat, bare branch at things only he could see. His mannerism were natural in the moments between his flailing - adjusting his hat, leaning against the wall with a cocked hip, rummaging through a bag - and then he swung again. His mind would be interesting to explore. Perhaps I should go there. I am intensely curious about his visions and voices….
• Child is best and brightest in all things -12 to 15ish - then has accident that puts them into a coma — same situation with their journey from their dark sleep to the light of life… think Charles DeLint did this…….shit.. never mind
• City woman, lots going on, adopts two dogs/cats from shelter —- or they find their way to her house — reluctant owner/parent, but does her best to take them in and care for them. They turn out to be little goblins in the right light, and are alternately helpful and destructive, but they always smile. Don’t know where I want to go with that…but I like the beginning idea…
• Woman (I like thinking about stories from a woman’s POV) lives her life, goes through every day, but starts to notice unusual things about the people around her — the moments start to change her perception and she finds new, strange, otherworldly aspects in those around her.

I have more, but I think I will just try to work around those. I’m interested in trying to get something with a composite structure, but I don’t know how the school will feel about that….
On other notes…. I  took Seroquel last night, slept like the dead, but am suffering from a sort of  med hangover… blech

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