Saul Bellow said "You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write."
I suspect that he was wrong, because oftentimes in the middle of the night I wake and scribble down something.
In the morning I find phrases like "Rabbit Feet" and remember that I dreamed about a girl who found a secret school in the basement of her actual school. In the secret school everyone is part animal. The girl discovers she has rabbit feet. How did she never notice?
I find a post-it that says "Bathroom Journal" about a girl who hides her journal in the library which is in a bathroom. Also, she writes lies in her journal. So half of the excellent book I could write would be her lying journal and the other half would be a third-person narrative about how crappy her real life is.
Seriously. I have about one brilliant idea like this a week. I wake up feeling happy and secure in the promise of a Printz award.
Then, a few hours later, I look back on what my dream was REALLY about.
Of course, the scene in Twilight where Edward sparkles in the sun came to Meyer in a dream...
Maybe Rabbit Feet could be the next best seller.
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Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Monday, February 8, 2010
Women
Today I watched All About Eve. An old black and white film from 1950 about an older actress being upstaged by a new young beautiful actress.
At one time the older actress is mourning the fact that she has no life outside of her career. Soon her career will be over and she will be a different person, someone she nor anyone else knows. It was interesting so I decided to share.
She says,
Funny business, a woman's career. The things you drop on your way up the ladder, so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you go back to being a woman. That's one career all females have in common - whether we like it or not - being a woman.
Sooner or later we've all got to work at it, no matter what other careers we've had or wanted... and, in the last analysis, nothing is any good unless you can look up just before dinner or turn around in bed - and there he is. Without that, you're not woman. You're something with a French provincial office or a book full of clippings -
but you're not a woman...
At one time the older actress is mourning the fact that she has no life outside of her career. Soon her career will be over and she will be a different person, someone she nor anyone else knows. It was interesting so I decided to share.
She says,
Funny business, a woman's career. The things you drop on your way up the ladder, so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you go back to being a woman. That's one career all females have in common - whether we like it or not - being a woman.
Sooner or later we've all got to work at it, no matter what other careers we've had or wanted... and, in the last analysis, nothing is any good unless you can look up just before dinner or turn around in bed - and there he is. Without that, you're not woman. You're something with a French provincial office or a book full of clippings -
but you're not a woman...
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