A couple of years ago I remember talking about the secession movement in Texas with a buddy of mine. We both agreed that it was terrifically silly, but that as a chance to brainstorm and pontificate it provided lots of material. I should have made that next jump and thought about it in terms of thriller writing and fiction.
the Prose of Texas article is all about people who took that spark that I remember and blew on it to make it flame up. You want to know what? I think they all sound like lots of fun and if I didn't already have so many other ideas I'd probably start trying to think of my own.
"The Secession of Texas" by Darrell Maloney of San Antonio envisions an independent Texas with its own border patrol, guarding against people trying to sneak into the country illegally—from Oklahoma.
"Lone Star Daybreak" by Erik L. Larson of Houston tells the story of recruits in the Texas Defense Force, a militia that protects the separatist state from Yankee armies. "Yellow Rose of Texas" by Dennis Snyder describes a U.S. saddled with $22 trillion in debt, a defanged military and a leftist president who promises to remove religion from public life, prompting an armed and economically vibrant Texas to declare that it has had enough.
Like I said, they all sound like fun and at least one needs to be on the to be read list. I will say this though, the next time I'm at a friends house and ponitificating the strangeness of a movement or an event or anything at all, I'm going to try and imagine a "what if" scenario and find a way to write it into a book.
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