What's Your Alternate Writing Reality?

I just love killing people. In fiction, that is. In real life, I'm so wimpy, I'm seriously afraid of clowns and have been known to faint at the sight of blood. But I'm fearless in my fiction and love crafting suspenseful mysteries with the added emotional umph of romance.

That doesn't stop me from daydreaming about an alternate reality in which I pursue another type of writing altogether. Science fiction.

I love a good science fiction novel, TV show (still in mourning over the end of the recent Battlestar Gallactica series) or movie, and I miss the intelligent social commentary and high-stakes action of the pulp SF I read in my youth. But like any other type of writing, the crafting of great SF requires dedication and commitment - the kind of laser-like focus I've often referred to in my posts.

That doesn't keep me from -- or lessen the enjoyment of -- imagining that career path now and again or tinkering idly with this or that idea I've had for a science fiction novel. It's a form of mental play, a forbidden flirtation I have no intention of acting on at this time.

So what's your alternate writing reality? If you weren't concentrating where you're currently working, what do you like to imagine yourself writing?