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New muse? Noooo...

In the throes of first-pass editing on one project and a co-write on another. Yet all it takes is a generalized comment to birth a new one. Some people walk through their lives as if they aren't there. Just... existing, and nothing more. My sister made a similar comment some years ago, when she was in her early twenties. Something to the effect that life felt like a dream, and her dreams felt more vivid than waking life did.  As if she led an entirely separate existence, and this reality  was, in actuality, the dream. An extraneous muse character, who's been lurking in the shadows of my mind for close to a year without making a single effort to grab my attention, sat up and took notice of these mental threads. "This," says Konaton, "is the direction my story will lead you." While I'm in the midst of a tandem-write. Yes, thanks Konaton. *pats head* Go back to sleep now. Please. I'll wake you when September ends. And you can gear up for NanoWrimo. Neve