1. Why do we torture ourselves by putting stupid extra words in our writing that we just have to cut out later? "Travis walks out of the house behind me, dressed in his jeans." No shit, Renee. Who else's jeans would he be wearing? Lucia's?
2. My house only has two seasons, despite the fact that I live in New England: hot and cold. We're now in cold. It's 63 in the warmest part of the house, which means it's probably closer to 61 where I'm sitting. Which explains the wool blanket I'm wrapped in. I need fingerless gloves.
3. I'm going to see Matt Nathanson in concert tonight. EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Please do yourselves a favor and go listen to samples of his newest album Some Mad Hope right now.
4. I finished The Big Sex Scene #2 yesterday. It includes the following words: shaft, cock, stroke, thrust, drive, plunge, clit and (my favorite for this scene) folds. Writing sex scenes is just a ridiculous process, albeit fun. It occurred to me that it's sort of like having to gracefully describe a game of Twister. See, he's got his right foot on red and her left foot is on green, but to reach the green circle she had to lean over him in sort of a sideways back bend because her right hand was already on blue and when he spun left hand yellow, I mean Christ. I don't even know how they're going to do that. It's such a mechanical process when you get right down to it, but that's not interesting -- the interesting part is the passion that is driving the mechanical process. Yet...you can't properly convey the passion without conveying the logistics of the mechanical process. It's a quandry.
5. We watched The Devil Wears Prada this morning. It's cute and fun and terribly predictable. I haven't read the book, so perhaps the book is less so. I kept saying to my husband, "My book can't be like this. I can't have any of this predictability in my book." The age old question of how to take a story conflict which has been told a thousand times but which is still interesting and tell it in a new way so that your audience isn't ten steps ahead of your plot.
Ok. I've droned on for long enough. Hope everyone's having a great Sunday!
2 comments:
I didn't see the movie, but the book was terrible. I found the Anne Hathawy character to be unbelievably self-absorbed and rather detestable...which wasn't how she was portrayed in any of the previews...
and of course I'll knit you something for the big book launch! Anything you want!
I didn't care for her character in the movie for different reasons but good to know I don't need to mourn the book not being on my shelf.
And yay! about the knitting! :)
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