With three days left before my self-imposed deadline to come up with a spiffy idea for NaNoWriMo (and six days before the official forum gets reset and would-be authors are permitted to post details of their 2016 novels), I have…one fragment of an idea.
It goes like this: The protagonist gets on a commuter train and instead of taking him to work as it always has, it takes him somewhere else, somewhere weird, wrong or possibly horrible. From there, the rest of the story chronicles how he and his fellow commuters puzzle out how and if they can get back to their comfortably mundane world.
It’s not much but the fact that I have a smidgen of something gives me some hope I may be able to meet at least the technical requirement of having an idea in place by October 1st.
I declare this a quasi-victory of sorts.