The leaves by me have not quite started their little fall fireworks display, they haven’t quite turned.
But make no mistake, OctoberWorld is here, and it’s here to stay.
For many of us OG OWs, OctoberWorld is not a time or a place but a state of mind.
The feeling of cool fall mornings armed with hot drinks and skeletons dancing on lawns. A time of surprises lurking in corners, the idea of one last adventure before the cold sweeps in, and we all go into hibernation.
That feeling, you can bottle it up and have it all the time. You can bring that feeling to everything. It’s a sense of adventure in the everyday, that anywhere there could be hiding a little bit of magic inside of it, and just when you look away it will sneak out.
Sometimes it’s good, a lot of times it isn’t and sometimes you won’t easily know which is which.
This month, I’ll be talking about all the amazing stories October brings. It started a few years ago with some short stories but now has grown into a universe. A living breathing universe. I don’t really have to do with it anymore, there is a little motor that keeps on running, keeps on self-generating stories. Also that sense of adventure.
The mindset.
Just as I was falling asleep last night, a line for a story came to me. Popped out of the ether, and down through my fingertips on to my trusty notepad. Then, on the way home from dropping Livi off at school, I heard a song and knew exactly how the book I’m writing ends. Like saw the scene in full-blown 4K clarity right in front of my eyeballs. I think Dolly in the backseat might’ve seen it too, out of nowhere she let out a small woof.
And so it goes, OctoberWorld rearing its beautiful head and infusing itself into every moment of life. It’s kind of like how you can get pumpkin flavored deodorant and pumpkin-infused tires and pumpkin smelling toilet paper. Except (hopefully) not as annoying.
Oh yeah, that book I’m writing, it will be available soon. In case you were wondering, it’s a OctoberWorld story called The Haunted House. It’s a weird kind of thing. Half fiction, some parts non-fiction and other parts completely interactive. So you can have the experience of walking through the candle-lit halls of an old, maybe haunted house. And depending on which doors you open, depends on the story you’ll be in. A automatic way to install the OctoberWorld mindset. Maybe when you exit the house, you’ll take the mindset with you.
That’s if you are able to escape leave.
In many ways, it’s like an episode of Three’s Company but seen through a blood soaked funhouse mirror. You’ll have to enter to find out exactly how.
If you like stories that take chances and give you a heightened sense of thrill, adventure and maybe some jump scares, then don’t sleep on this.
Just me, you and who knows what creeping around the door down the hall that’s slowly creaking open.
The sound of an old TV with rabbit ears playing in the distance, like it’s a hundred miles away.
And also very close.
The flicker of a candle.
Come on knock on my door, we’ve been waiting for you…..
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